Countdown to Millennium

This collection includes the first comprehensive catalogue of Matthews' album cover work for bands such as Asia, Magnum and Rick Wakeman. Also here are Matthews' idiosyncratic realizations of the fantastic worlds of Lewis Carroll's 'Wonderland', C. S. Lewis' 'Narnia' and J. R. R. Tolkien's 'Middle Earth'. Looking to the future, we are treated to a glimpse of his computer game designs and a number of exciting TV projects, such as the whimsical 'Lavender Castle'. Matthews gives a very personal insight into the creative processes and spiritual forces at work behind his art. He shares these convictions in depictions of the lost days of Arthurian legend and his sometimes unsettling visions of the future.