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"The Citadel of The Autarch""The Sword of the Lictor""The Claw of The Conciliator""The The Shadow of The Torturer"
(From the book "Solar Wind Volume 2")By : Deborah Susan Jones : Editor & Contributing writer"The
Citadel of The Autarch" is a piece completed by the artist
on 28th February 1987 and published by Arrow Books in Great
Britain in October of that year.It is a cover for the Gene Wolfe novel
of the same name.
In days far distant, still
never mind emblazoned in memory past, the numerous visits
to a very great number of publishers "often in rooms so
small that two people were a crowd . . . . " Peter was
commissioned to design a new layout, and paint new cover
artwork for a Gene Wolfe series of books, listed above,
and we traveled up to town (Covent Garden) on the
Underground to an appointment with the art director of
Arrow Books.
We
discussed and negotiated . . . . and re-negotiated
endlessly, the cover design and content that Arrow
required.The art
director, and ourselves talked-on for fully five hours,
and still, remained unable to finally reach a
conclusion.
Exhausted
by the effort of keeping up with choices . . . . "in
other words, to keep ourselves fully focussed".We said
our goodbyes, took our leave, and rushed out to find a
coffee!!
Back at
the studio, the next day, Peter did what he had
one so many times before, he took a risk, used his
instinct, and invested a fatally new "look" for a series
of books which had exhausted their previous incarnation,
and re-launched the series with a fresh approach.The flat
background colours were applied with a household
decorator's paint
roller, airbrushed
over to give the tonal gradations, and then the figures
were painted as flat acrylic opaque shapes and then
paired in his time-honored oil paint style, giving a
complete contrast of techniques within the image.The
paintings are reproduced in their full glory in Volume 2
of our Solar Wind Book here.Deborah Susan Jones
