14 Hour Technicolour Dream

14 Hour Technicolour Dream

Osiris Visions poster company – 1967 Silkscreen. Poster produced for the IT benefit concert at the Alexandra Palace held on April 29 1967. I never tired of watching people float around during these events, occasionaly blowing bubbles, totally self absorbed. I...
Legalise Pot Rally

Legalise Pot Rally

Big O poster company – 1967 Silkscreen. Hoppy was sentenced to 9 months on June 1st 1967 for possession of cannabis. This event along with the arrest of some high profile rock personalities led to a ‘Legalise Pot Rally’ in Hyde Park on July the 16th 1967 and a...
Jazz at the Roundhouse

Jazz at the Roundhouse

Osiris Visions poster company – 1967 Silkscreen. A spiritual poster produced by ‘Omtentacle’, a studio partnership between myself and Dudley Edwards. This has very little to do with jazz, the subject was secondary to the spiritual message. The two entwined snake...
Meher Baba and Delia de Leon

Meher Baba and Delia de Leon

Venice – 1932 Avatar Meher Baba was born in Poona, India in 1894. His mission as Avatar, the Hindu word for Godman, started in 1921 and developed as a practical example of his principle message of love. He worked with disciples in India, Europe, America and the...
Flying Dragon Tea House

Flying Dragon Tea House

436 Kings Road, Chelsea – 1967/68 The tea house was commissioned by Pussy Weber and Barbara Allen and produced by the design partnership ‘Omtentacle’ comprising myself and Dudley Edwards. The exterior of the restaurant (covering the whole window and facia board)...
La Fenetre Rose

La Fenetre Rose

1967 A poster with a spiritual message produced by the ‘Omtentacle’ design team of myself and Dudley Edwards. We conceived of an evolutionary hippy head as the key image for a psychedelic show in Paris. The head carries a number of meanings. It is a tree of life that...
‘Tommy’ Tryptich Cover

‘Tommy’ Tryptich Cover

‘Tommy’ Cover – 1969 I liked the ‘idea’ of the Tommy character. Rather than trying to portray him I wanted to picture his experience of being in a world without conventional senses. I thought it would be limitless and unbounded yet trapped in an environment made...
‘Tommy’ Booklet

‘Tommy’ Booklet

Selection of double spreads for the 12 page lyrics booklet that accompanies the album. The images continue to act as symbols for key moments in the story and follow the libretto more closely. Window/cloud spread The r/h image of window, candle and snow signifies the...
Kim Philby

Kim Philby

Sunday Times Magazine – August 24th 1969 ‘1000 Makers of the Twentieth Century’. A portrait of the Russian spy Kim Philby who was also head of the English secret service. I used a Reuters Agency photo as reference. The reverse of the photograph had the caption...