50 Favourite Album Covers

I began this series of paintings for the Art Car Boot Fair in Margate in September 2019, the theme was LOVE, so I decided to make some paintings of something I love. These 10x10cm oil paintings are miniature interpretations of some of my favourite album covers, it’s not exactly a definitive list, but these albums are some that I love and respect and their cover artworks are imprinted on my visual memory.

My plan was to paint 50 but I reached 49, I will paint number 50 at some point! I saw this series as a project that ran alongside other work I was making in the studio, tiny paintings I could make at the kitchen table as and when I found time after work, something that could fit in around family life.

Sex+Pistols-sm.jpg
Sonic+Youth-sm.jpg
Kraftwerk-sm.jpg
Joy%2BDivision-sm.jpg
David+Bowie+-+Ziggy+Stardust_sm.jpg
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love_sm.jpg
Bob+Dylan+-+Blonde+on+Blonde_sm.jpg
Neil+Young+-+After+The+Gold+Rush_sm.jpg
The Kinks_sm.jpg
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy_sm.jpg
T+Rex-sm.jpg
Pulp-sm.jpg
Nirvana-sm.jpg
New+york+Dolls-sm.jpg
The+Slits-sm.jpg
The+Clash+-+The+Clash_sm.jpg
The+Stooges+-+The+Stooges_sm.jpg
The+Ramones+-+The+Ramones_sm.jpg
The+Stone+Roses+-+The+Stone+Roses_sm.jpg
Iggy and the Stooges_Raw Power_sm.jpg
Prince - Purple Rain_sm.jpg
Talking+Heads-sm.jpg
Blondie-sm.jpg
Bruce+Springsteen-sm.jpg
Boys+Don%27t+Cry_sm.jpg
Love-sm.jpg
Fleetwood%2BMac%2B-%2BRumours_sm.jpg
The+Beach+Boys+-+Pet+Sounds_sm.jpg
Super+Furries+-+Radiator_sm.jpg
PJ Harvey_Stories from the city Stories from the sea_sm.jpg
Ride Nowhere_sm.jpg
My+Bloody+Valentine_sm.jpg
Patti+Smith-sm.jpg
Primal%2BScream-sm.jpg
Velvet+Underground-sm.jpg
The+Rolling+Stones+-+Beggars+Banquet_sm.jpg
The+Beatles+-+Abbey+Road_sm.jpg
Nuggets_sm.jpg
small faces - ogdens.jpg
ACDC Back in Black_sm.jpg
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction_sm.jpg

 

Album cover commissions

Along the way I began to get commission requests, in the end I painted around 30 album cover painting commissions and I loved making these for people! It would often introduce me to an album I hadn’t listened to. I have a few commission slots available annually, if you are interested please email me at tinseledwards@gmail.com I would be happy to chat through ideas with you.

R.E.M_sm.jpg
Black Sabbath_sm.jpg
Pet Shop Boys_sm.jpg
Dead Kennedys_In God We Trust_sm.jpg
Laurie Anderson_sm.jpg
Dead Kennedys_sm.jpg
Pink Floyd_sm.jpg
Thin Lizzy_Jailbreak_sm.jpg
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising_sm.jpg
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies_sm.jpg
The Human League - Dare_sm.jpg