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JP Trevor was born in London, and Shapiro Koyama) in Phoenix and got ings of Gotham City.
lived in France where he started my Shodan.” JP’s work has taken him all over the
painting in his parent’s living room One night JP slept in his studio sip- world. In 1997 he was sent to Bosnia
at the age of ten. As a ping rum to calm his nerves by Warchild to design an exhibition
teenager, JP (standing
“I designed the
because he was going to for Pavarotti’s £2 million Music Cen-
for Jean-Pierre) would
Russian concert on
transport a thirteen foot tre in Mostar, which was built to give
walk across the fields
the floor of a bed-
painting ‘Nativity’ in an old new hope for the survivors.
in Valbonne south of
sit in west London.
van to Monaco at dawn, In 1998 he was flown to Moscow
France, to his studio, a
I once did a canvas
“As well as on everyday
where the artist would to design a major rock musical for
few hundred yards from
background for
items, it would be fun to
be introduced to Princess Russia’s leading star, Laima Vaikule.
Picasso’s last studio,
British Airways
JP working on his Gotham City set design
see my work in hotels, spas,
Grace of Monaco
formula one cars and on with soup and cheese
in an abandoned
at a collective
the inside of yachts and
in a workman’s can and
warehouse with
show.
aircraft. My experience in
became known as the
one light bulb.”
In 1979 American
pre and post film produc-
little ‘Jeune Maitre’; young master. collector William Grossman
tion, design and special FX
JP says of his foray into the art world: of Gault Galleries, New York,
makes it easy for me to
understand product devel-
“I had to leave school for good be- bought Nativity for $3,000
opment and how a line is
cause my parents were struggling, so I when JP was only fourteen.
built by a manufacturer.”
started painting. I never wanted to be JP went on to study at the
classified as an ‘artist’, I probably never Beaux Arts de Nice, and lat-
wanted to be one at all. My mother er trained in Special Effects
cried when I did my first six-foot and Matte painting under his
painting when I was sixteen and so I friend and mentor Harrison Ellenshaw, The Russian economy had just col-
figured she’d love me more if I painted head of Visual Effects at Walt Disney lapsed including the budget for extra
more. I did things to toughen the sen- Productions in Los Angeles, where he sets, and the star had fired Krasnov,
sitive artist, like becoming a fire fight- worked on the set of Star Wars. Russia’s top designer. With the 3,000-
er for a year in the Arizona mountains. JP has received many awards for fine seater Roissia auditorium booked, JP
Detail from
Then I trained for years with one of art and design which include the cov- quickly sketched new designs onto
Phantazia
the leading Japanese Sensei (Sensei eted Lurzer Archiv & CCA awards napkins and thrust them into the
(1992-93) for hands of hungry Russian steel-work-
television com- ers. The show was dubbed by Russian
mercial design, PTP press as ‘Best Concert Design by
and major PR/ad- a Foreign Designer’. The star brought
vertising sets for JP onto the stage and thanked him in
prototype pro- front of the creme of Russia’s show
duction cars in business.
Detroit. In 1992 In 2005 JP completed a fifteen by ten
he was asked to foot Art-Deco oil painting. ‘Berecin-
design ‘master’ gum – Deccanhaam’ was commis-
scenes of Go- sioned by the local governing body to
Gotham
tham City for represent the past, present and future
City by
Tim Burton’s film of Barking and Dagenham. A digital re-
JP Trevor
10ft x 7ft,
Batman. In 2002, production was unveiled by the Mayor.
painted on
Christie’s sold The artwork, which has been installed
glass >
one of JP’s Con- above the new glass bridge at Bark-
ceptual oil paint- ing Town Hall, was hailed as a “major
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