Junior Tomlin

Graphic artist/designer whose work has been commissioned by several of the influential dance labels, including: Mute, Kickin Records, Vinyl Solution, React, ZTT, and Rugged Vinyl Records.

About

I started my career in the computer games packaging industry in the early eighties. My initial pieces were produced using airbrush with my style considered by many as being part Sci Fi, part fantasy. back in the early nineties was my most prolific period producing some of the most remembered and iconic images of that decade, images that helped and inspired a generation to create art

I have had many contracts, including record covers for leading dance labels, the first being Space Gladiator for Renegade Sound-wave on the Mute record label, ZTT and React - an independent dance label, Fashion Records (specialising in reggae) a compilation jungle album featuring Cutty Ranks and Poison Chang. My style developed over the years and he moved into creating rave flyers. My airbrushing technique combined with my futuristic style of delivery earned me the name the Salvador Dali of Rave‚ in the late eighties when the rave scene was flourishing in Britain. I amassed a moderate following among the Rave community in London, Japan and Australia, where my early flyers are still in demand and considered collectors items. Founder member of the London cartoon workshop where he learnt sequential art.

I developed a passion for teaching in the late nineties and sought vocation at Kensington and Chelsea College where I taught graphics using computer applications I later went on to teach at westminister college. My passion in my spare time is drumming cinema and the arts

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