Rodney Matthews / картины

Alton · 4 января 2009

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http://www.rodneymatthews.com/main.htm

Rodney Matthews has worked as a freelance designer and illustrator of fantasy, science fiction and fairy tale as applied to record covers, book jackets and books (adult and children's), TV series and video games for 30 years, and is acknowledged world-wide as being one of the top practitioners in these genres.

His originals have been exhibited at Britain's foremost illustrators gallery, the Chris Beetles Gallery in London's West End, while he has held one-man shows at the Langton Gallery, London, in Sierre, Switzerland, in Cardiff and Machynlleth, Wales, with participation in many joint shows and signing sessions in the UK and Europe. Matthews' originals are owned by celebrities including Pythons John Cleese and Terry Jones who have 5 between them. Rodney has been in great demand for record cover design, having done more than 70 for artists including Thin Lizzy, Nazareth, Asia, The Scorpions, Barclay James Harvest, Magnum (10), and Rick Wakeman.

Over 80 of his designs have been published as poster prints, selling in millions world-wide. There have also been postcards, notecards, collector's cards, jigsaw puzzles (UK and US), limited edition prints, and of course his well known anthology books: 'In Search of Forever', 'Last Ship Home', and 'Countdown to Millennium', not forgetting the illustrated Michael Moorcock book 'Elric at the End of Time', and portfolios for 1990 and 1993. Some of his books have been published in French, German, and Japanese.

Other items include calendars of which there have been a total of 15, an interactive CD-ROM 'Between Earth and the End of Time', a biographic video 'A House on the Rock', and work on video games. In 1998 a major children's animation series 'Lavender Castle' was completed. The original concept and all design was by Matthews and the 26 x 10 minute episodes were produced by Gerry Anderson. It has subsequently become a favourite with British audiences, having received excellent reviews and ratings equalling Rugrats while in direct competition (more details can be found in the Showreel section).

Rodney Matthews was born at Paulton, North Somerset, England on 6th July 1945 to Wilfred Jack and Mildred May Matthews, and he has one sister, Beryl.

His father was an important influence on his early artistic development. Jack Matthews was an extremely artistic and inventive man. His activities included painting and drawing, cycle building and racing, drawing architectural plans and building houses, model making (working model locomotives, wartime ships and aircraft to raise money for wartime charities), first aid, photography and developing, drumming in dance bands, welding, engineering and furniture making; a formidable list which Rodney does not try to compete with!