Sheffield based artist Matt Ferguson gives us an insight into his stunning The Phantom Menace poster, designed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Episode I and one that involved a lot more than pencils and paint, but a quarter of a century of memories.
“I was actually doing work experience at the time in an office through school, and I remember just being so excited about the new Star Wars movie. I went out and bought this Darth Maul action figure on a lunch break and everybody else was just so excited for it. And then we got to go see it. And I can remember I just loved it.
The key thing is to go on the memory of the film. These are anniversary posters, so it’s kind of like, what’s my personal memory of the film when it was coming out — almost like, before it came out.
The color comes into it a lot for me, so there’s reds and golds, and I remember a lot of the marketing at the time and a lot of the stuff in toy shops, because I always liked action figures and things, was that kind of color. So that was the thing that I keyed on for this one. I wanted that rich, warm color.”
