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The Saliva Tree(From the book "Solar Wind Volume 1")By :
Deborah Susan Jones :
Editor Oil
on Gouache on paper - a sample piece for my college
portfolio. While
at St.Martins School of Art a mutual friend at college
suggested I show
samples to a friend, the manager of the paperback
section of the famous
London book shop, Foyles. It was early December 1973.He
showed them to a Panther Books sales rep, who waltzed
off with them,
out of town, to the art director "some distance away" -
my entire
college portfolio! All my degree work!Three years of it!The
art director proved very hard to contact and I was
greatly concerned
that my degree show presentation had vanished into thin
air.
(Hertfordshire as it turned out, where the company had
its main
headquarters).I
stormed into his Soho-based London office, eventually
when I tracked
him down, grabbed my portfolio, and headed for the door
- this was a
guy I could never work with!Little did I know . . . . .As
I made for the door he said "you may as well show me
while you are
here" to which I replied "If you haven't bothered to
look at it thus
far, why should I waste my time?"How's that for an intro?His reply?"Don't be silly, show me".I
was privileged to know one of the very greatest art
directors I ever
worked with and so much of what he taught me, even to
this day,
influences much of what I create and certainly how I
create it.A truly talented man.His name?The late, great, Steve Abis. Thank you Steve,
for all your help and knowledge imparted - never
forgotten.- ever.RIP Steve.Peter Andrew Jones
