We are delighted to have johavonart with us for CONQUEST. The company is
a partnership between MTG artist John Avon and lifetime science fiction fan
Guy Coulson. Johns work is simply brilliant whether it is on an MTG card,
playmat or hanging on a wall it is bound to impress. The will be in the main hall
in the morning but will move to the MTG hall in the afternoon once the MTG
event starts. They will have a selection of John's art, his new book and maybe even
some signed MTG cards.
When he was around zero years old, John Avon realized that the only thing he was
ever 'really' good at was Art. As a school kid he began painting many surrealistic
images, including a house being filled with toothpaste and a submarine being
attacked by a shrimp... a pattern was emerging!
Having mastered classical oil painting as a teenager, John furthered his education
on graphic design degree in Britain’s most bohemian city, Brighton.
On graduating John embarked upon his by career painting book covers for some of
the world’s most famous authors including Stephen King, Arthur C Clarke, Peter
James, Harry Harrison and Terry Pratchett. After about 5 years he moved over to
acrylics and airbrushing, so his art would arrive at the publishers actually dry! By
chance in 1996 John met one of the art directors for Magic: the Gathering and that
was the start of a long and beautiful relationship. John’s first painting for Magic was
Purple Mountain.
John lives in Brighton with his wife Patricia and two teenage sons.
