"35
Years of
making professional
Art
. . . . . ."
Having
painted since the age of three, even before leaving St.
Martin's School of Art in mid 1973, Peter's already
burgeoning career took off with a "bang!!" and
he spent the next 25 years creating cover Art for Science
Fiction, Fantasy and Role-Playing books, working in
television on projects such as "The Two Ronnies Christmas
Show" and "The Tripods", in advertising for
Companies like Harrods, on films for Companies Like Ford
and Plessy and with occasional film posters thrown-in too,
and his Art for "The Sword and the Sorcerer" and
"Alligator II" could as easily be seen at his
local cinema in his then home town of Wimbledon (of tennis
fame) as well as "all over the New York subway",
to quote Group One Films.
"A
minimum of 400 million people have held his art in their
hands"
since 1973 by one fan's calculation
and therešs no way to calculate how many tv, movie, games
consoles and other media consumers have viewed it on screens,
let lone held his book cover art in their hands on every
continent."
The
"Legendary"
Illustrator . . . . . ."
(Role Player magazine)
He can't remember how many copies of Fighting Fantasy,
Lone Wolf and other Role-play gamebooks carried his cover
Art. Millions certainly. Or how many authors got larger
royalty cheques as a result of his involvement. Or exactly
on what date it was that he discovered Science Fiction books
with his cover Art quadrupled their sales. Despite the accolades
heaped on him by clients and fans alike, the former mainly
due to his skill at accelerating the sales of books, the
latter to do with the Art itself, "that was then,
and this is now" and his personal focus has
always simply been on "striving always to be a more
skilled Artist"; that, and a desire since the
age of twelve, when he made his first handmade publication
from cut up school essay books, to be "self-published".
"Back
to (future) basics
. . . . . ."
And
so it was, in the late 90's he closed his famous Design
and Licensing Company based in Wimbledon, Solar Wind
Limited, which had clients as far apart as Tokyo and
Los Angeles and all major geographical locations in-between,
and moved from London to Shropshire to what is officially
designated "an area of outstanding natural beauty"
in the depths of England's rural countryside known as "The
Marches", on the edge of an old Roman Road not far
from a cave said to contain Merlin, still alive, walled-up
by Morgana le Fay, to open a studio literally at the foot
of the Long Mynd Hills, where kestrels circle over the wood
at the rear of the studio and Sheep graze by the hundreds,
to create and direct >
Peter
Andrew
Jones Publishing
SCIENCE
FICTION : FANTASY
: URBAN : RURAL
: AVIATION : CONTEMPORARY
FIGURATIVE
PAINTINGS
: DRAWINGS
: MIXED MEDIA PRINTS
: BOOKS
: GREETING CARDS
and invest in a "new" career that fuses the capabilities
of digital technology, traditional Renaissance Fine Art skills
and innovative craft techniques.
"Decidedly
Different" (publishing)
.
. . . . ."
(Wreaks of quality from end-to-end" - P.W., U.S.A. Collector)
On
any one day a studio conversation might centre at least as
much on Renaissance Painting techniques and Publishing Schedules
as it might on Photoshop or html syntax but whatever the topic
the focus is, exclusively, on utter quality, innovation, originality
and that sheer dash that also drives his famous Science Fiction
Cover Art. His Publishing Company's works hold their own with
any giant Global Publishing organisation but with one distinct
unsurpassable difference -
each and every item is utterly hand
crafted to the highest possible
level.
A
truly innovative range of uniquely presented
publications and works
involving >
Frames
: generous in scale and beautifully hand-embellished
Mounts : inner
"slip" frames crafted from handmade paper as thick
as wood
Books : handmade
books with unique covers fashioned from real paint
Greeting
Cards
: studio created and extremely high quality paper
All
designed to complement those wonderful legendary paintings
described by the Authoress Tannith Lee as "the kind of
Art you dream about".
"Self-exacting
standards" . . .
Now
he paints rural scenes simply because he lives in the midst
of such inspiring countryside. Science Fiction remains very
much "in his blood" however and his first self-published
book was "SOLAR WIND - No known substance",
the first of a number of books showcasing his Fantastical
Art, and his company now publishes both his historically known
and contemporary imaginative Fantasy works such as his illustrated
novel "Crux Millennium" with its attendant
print series, masterworks, often detailed with real Gold and
rare pigments such as lapis lazuli, an extremely rare and
expensive pigment from antiquity. He now also pursues his
aviation art, which is what he'd originally intended to do
before fame as a Science Fiction Artist dragged him off-course,
and he spends equal amounts of time between six genres with
the recent additions of Urban Art ,Contemporary Figurative
works plus directing his publishing company and liaising with
a string of carefully selected stockists.
"Busy", therefore, does not even remotely
come near the description of what he is most of the time,
but he enjoys his "new" business just the same.
Click here for his full
biography
and past adventures.
Debbie-Jones
(c)1999 (updated 2008)
