Pete Lyon
| Peter Michael Lyon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1950 Liverpool, England |
| Notable work | Redwall covers, Team17 |
| Style | Oil painting, computer graphics |
| Website | www |
Peter Michael Lyon is a UK-based visual artist who has worked in a wide range of 2D and 3D media spanning from traditional oil painting to computer graphics, for the science fiction and fantasy genres. According to his personal website, he has been involved in various works in the computer games industry such as graphic production, teaching and management, with 3D modelling and animation. He is known as a pioneer graphic designer for the Atari and the Amiga in the 1980s and 1990s.
Born in 1950 in north Liverpool, England, Lyon won a place at St Mary's Roman Catholic College in Crosby when he was only 11. In 1962, his family moved to Australia where they lived in the outback town of Penola and in Adelaide. Lyon attended the Croydon Boys Technical High School for a few years before his family returned to England in the mid-1960s. For his collegiate experience, Lyon attended Liverpool College of Art and Design, where he was taught by acclaimed pop-artist Sam Walsh, Maurice Cockrill R.A. and Mersey poet Adrian Henri. He gained a 2.1 B.A. degree in 1973. A major element of his final portfolio was the fantasy black and white graphic work Calmabloc plus a set of representational paintings.
Lyon moved to Leeds in West Yorkshire in 1973 and by the mid-1970s, after working in short-term posts, he set out to develop as an artist and began working on painting techniques (oils, acrylics, airbrushing). A growing involvement in the science fiction (SF) fandom led to the production of a large quantity of cartoons and pictures for many science fiction fanzines of the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1982, he was voted UK fan artist of the year. He also helped organize a number of UK science fiction conventions and ran the art show at Seacon, the world science fiction convention, in 1989. He was also a guest of honour in Glasgow at Albacon III in 1986 alongside Joe Haldeman, John Jarold and Clive Barker. He was twice nominated for British SF Association Awards firstly in 1982 and again in 1987 for his cover work on the first Interzone magazines.
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