Looking back: music and degree shows

Boy my family and I had a lot of fun playing music around the world when we were younger (I'm an optimist: I remember the fun days, not the stress, or disappointments).


Today I've been reminiscing; looking back at old album covers. It took me a good couple of weeks to painstakingly replicate this old 1950s National Geographic advert. I painted it onto a piece of board about 60 x 60cms in gouache (though it was frustrating the designer didn't get the tint of the "G" and the "L" right). I was pretty upset when my dad gave it to a record owner as a 'thank you' - it's hard parting with work that's taken so much effort. Money or appreciation is not compensation enough - I sometimes wonder how that painting is doing now.

And I've also been looking back at my Illustration final degree show (8 years ago now) - I wanted to tell the story of our family band with a series of screen prints.













I sold quite a few of these, but the great thing about screen printing is there's always the artist's copy, and I'll be keeping that for myself!