COMING SOON
Kevin E. M. Clark
Art by Kevin E M Clark
Ever since a child art as fascinated me looking at grubby paintings in doctors, hospitals, and Dentist waiting rooms I would lose myself in imaginary worlds. It was only when I moved to London and I visited art galleries and exhibitions. That I realised how powerful art was, I love to look at the giant biblical paintings, Impressionists and Pre-Raphaelites. Fantastic worlds to spark the imagination and creation.
ROXY OR JAPAN
Prime in Paris
Passage through theRuins
Album Art
The Art of the Album Cover growing up through the 1960s and 1970s, I saw a time when music was about much more than the sound coming from a record.It was an entire culture.Fashion, photography, painting, graphic design, underground art and the changing attitudes of a generation all found their way onto album covers. Walking into a record shop could be like walking into a small art gallery. Before you heard a single note, the cover could already take you somewhere.Some were beautiful. Some were strange. Some were provocative. Others were deliberately unsettling.They belonged to the subcultures surrounding the music—psychedelia, glam rock, punk, experimental music and the underground. Artists were creating identities and entire worlds around themselves.That stayed with me.I have always thought visually. When I hear music or create a character, images begin to form in my mind. I don't see an album cover simply as packaging for the music. It is part of the story.That influence has followed me into the covers I create for my own imaginary albums and musical projects.**Roxy or Japan** draws upon the collision of East and West—Japan and America, beauty and commercialism, tradition and modern culture.**Prime in Paris** takes me somewhere different: fashion, theatre, performance, decadence and the creation of an alter ego. The cover has to introduce Prime before the audience has even heard him.**Passage Through the Ruins** belongs to another visual world again. It is darker and more reflective—a journey through decay, memory, survival and what remains after something has disappeared.Each requires its own visual language, but they all come from the same place.They come from those years when an album could be something you held in your hands, studied and lived with. You could stare at the artwork while the record played and discover details you had never noticed before.For me, that relationship between **music, art and imagination** never disappeared.The technology may have changed, but I still believe an album cover should do what those great covers did for me all those years ago
Makes you want to enter the World behind it
Sub Culture
Peter Paint**Peter Paint is an imaginary artist born from Pop Art, music, fashion and subculture.**His world draws inspiration from the cultural explosion of the 1960s and 1970s, when the boundaries between art, music, fashion, photography and popular culture began to disappear.Artists such as **Andy Warhol** took everyday objects, famous faces, advertising and mass-produced imagery and transformed them into art. At the same time, musicians were no longer simply making records. They were creating identities, characters, fashions and entire visual worlds around their music.Album covers became canvases.Fashion became performance.The street became a gallery.Peter Paint comes from that same spirit.He takes inspiration from Pop Art, underground culture, music, fashion, advertising, cinema and the rebellious subcultures that challenged what society considered respectable or acceptable.Bold colours, strong typography, repeated images, unusual combinations and cultural symbols become part of his visual language.But Peter Paint does not belong to the 1960s or 1970s.He is an imaginary artist who carries their creative freedom forward.Through him, I can experiment without rules. He can move between painting, graphic design, album artwork, fashion and popular culture. He can be playful one moment and provocative the next.Peter Paint allows me to look backwards for inspiration while creating something of my own.He exists somewhere between **artist, designer, storyteller and cultural observer**.And perhaps that is the point.**Peter Paint isn't a real person — but the art, ideas and imagination behind him are very real.**
IMAGINE
