![]() Matthews has also contributed concept designs for the 2005 film The Magic Roundabout. It was produced at Cosgrove Hall Films in Manchester and purchased by ITV for the UK. In 1998, Matthews and the late Gerry Anderson completed Lavender Castle, a 26-episode stop-motion CGI animation series for children. These images were also used for a 1978 calendar entitled "Wizardry and Wild Romance". ![]() Their collaboration in the 1970s resulted in a series of 12 large posters, depicting scenes from Moorcock's Eternal Champion series. Matthews has illustrated numerous books, including those by English fantasy and science fiction author Michael Moorcock. He has been a regular exhibitor at the Chris Beetles Gallery, in London's West End, where he met English comedian, actor, writer and producer John Cleese, an avid collector of his work. His originals have been exhibited throughout the UK and Europe. ![]() More than 90 of his pictures have been published worldwide, selling in poster format, as well as many international editions of calendars, jigsaw puzzles, postcards, notecards, snowboards and T-shirts. Matthews has painted over 140 subjects for record album covers, for many rock and progressive rock bands. ![]() Trained at the West of England College of Art, Matthews worked in advertising for Plastic Dog Graphics before turning freelance in 1970, initially under the name Skyline Studios. Rodney Matthews (born 6 July 1945) is a British illustrator and conceptual designer of fantasy and science-fiction. ![]()
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