Peter Rachman Print

Moved from Manchester to London in 1985, worked as a freelance illustrator in the fashion, advertising and music industries. Beginning with a punk photomontage style, he was inspired by the mixing techniques of Hip Hop Djs to turn the colour photocopier into an image mixing desk, before the introduction of DTP. Clients included Vogue, Soul 2 Soul and City Limits. In 1988, he became joint coordinator of the Tabernacle community grafitti project based in Notting Hill. Where he helped to form 'West London Pressure' Londons first commercial grafitti crew, producing backdrops, banners and graphics for community groups, charities, music promoters and Notting Hill carnival. He still provides graffiti style artwork for KidZbox, a non-contact boxing youth charity. In 1993, Thames & Huson published his art thesis titled "Strecnology - graffix user manual" under the pseudonym of "Various Artists." His work was first reviewed by Creative Review in 1988 and showcased in 1994, on the first commercial website - Levi's. In 1999, he was invited to hold a joint exhibition called 'Hamburger Icons', mocking celebrities of the time, it was reviewed by the Daily Star and Heat magazine. In 2014, he produced a series of raster graphic images using techniques developed for the photocopier and adapted for digital technology. Part of 'Notting Hell Icons' exibition. The images from the 20th century are the only remaining impressions. Many of them are scans of photocopies, taken from the originals, which have not survived. In other cases, files have been deleted. Since 2012, as M B Jackson, he has worked with Green Magic publishing, researching, writing and illustrating seven reference books on the magic symbols and scripts of western occultism. Available from Amazon and occult book shops. Titles are Sigils, Sigils, Seals & Pentacles, Sigils, Ciphers and Scripts, Neopagan Sigils, Occult Alphabets, Scripts and Ciphers, Sigillagraphia Far Eastern Occultism