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No. 99 The Jethro Tull album cover for Crest of a Knave

The famous rock legend Ian Anderson photographed here at Madison Square Gardens looking every bit the Scottish bard! He told me I was hired due to the fact that whilst looking through Carl Alexander von Volborth's book, 'The Art of Heraldry' he liked not only my name but that I was, 'still alive'. By that he meant I was one of the youngest artists featured in book. He also liked my asymmetric style.


I have included this because to me it was such a fun commission and it is not everyday you get to hang out with a rock star legend.  

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