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Bounty Hunter(From the book "Solar
Wind
Volume 2")Sometime around 1977
it became clear
that demand for the artist's work was wider than merely
creating book
covers when requested by UK companies, and that
publishers, especially
outside the UK, had a demand for the work, and so it was
that,
initially, the Solar Wind Picture Library was formed as
a division of
the artist's fairly new company, Solar Wind Limited, and
a database of
copyrights was set up, lawyers engaged, with the initial
concept of
re-licensing works first created for UK companies to
companies outside
the UK, and indeed, that is what transpired many times
thereafter.However, it then became also clear,
that such was the demand, even that facility was not
enough to satisfy
the sheer number of incoming requests for licenses to
reproduce his
works.To try to meet the demand,
spontaneous pictures were created to provide an "off the
shelf"
facility when requests were made, simply because it had
become
impossible to fit any extra commissioned works into the
studio schedule.This painting, an entirely "off the
cuff" creation, is perhaps one of the most exotic of the
artist's
characterisations?Both the alien and the space vehicle
are floating in a zero gravity environment.Ironically, the picture was never
licensed to a publisher so appearance in the book Solar
Wind volume 2
is the first time it has ever been seen!Deborah
Susan JonesContributing editor
