Mick Austin

Initially a comic book artist and illustrator, his painterly style led to him leaving this genre and concentrating on fine art in 1996.

He also worked for several other publications up to 1996, notably as features artist for The Sunday Times from 1982 to 1985; illustrating stories for the magazines Men Only, Mayfair, the TV Times as well as many book covers and several film posters.

Some of his last comic work was for Fleetway's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the early 1990s and a final stint on 2000 AD and Judge Dredd before he was offered his first one-man (fine art) show at Jonathan Cooper's Park Walk Gallery in October 1997.

His last two exhibitions of 2006 and 2007 concentrated on the Toro Bravo, or ‘fighting bull’, painted not from the bull-ring but in the sierras of southern Spain.

His work has been reproduced as open and limited edition prints by The Art Group of London.