Peter Andrew Jones

Peter Andrew Jones is a British artist and illustrator who has produced a large number of fantasy and science fiction genre illustrations. During a professional career of over 43 years he has worked on book jacket covers, film posters, advertising, and games, as well as contributing to many BBC TV and commercial TV programs amp projects and set up and ran his own company, Solar Wind, later transforming it into a Science Fiction amp Fantasy brand, alongside several other specific genrebased brands, such as Heroes amp Villains, his games related art, Simulacra, his works based on myths amp legends of ancient Britain, amp Rural Dreams, his rural wildlife and landscape art inspired by his immediate surroundings, all of which now are the root of his own publishing business, primarily hand made artisan books and limited edition prints and the sale of his original art. He now lives in rural Shropshire, England, where he has his studio, also carrying out many private commissions.

Peter Andrew Jones was born into the relative poverty of postwar Britain in Islington, north London, the son of Reginald and Catherine Jones, his father an engineer. Showing interest in the visual arts from an early age, he describes the London of his early boyhood as smogridden and grey with little for children to do, and took to painting to fill time and colour his world. He also began to develop a lifelong love of aviation and space technology encouraged by commercial Airfix kits and drawing fighter aircraft at RAF Leuchers in Scotland when visiting his mothers relatives in Fifeshire, Scotcland. At school he continued to pursue his interest in art, and won numerous school prizes for his work. Many Sunday visits with his parents to Londons National and Tate Galleries even before the age of twelve further fixed his interest in a future career in the field.

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