Interviews

Guitar designer and maker Oliver Andrew aka Cynosure has been part of the RAM gallery every year since the inaugural exhibition at the Bloodstock festival in 2014, contributing some of the most… Read more

Eliran Kantor is a Berlin-based artist and illustrator best known for creating album covers for bands such as Testament, Hatebreed, Sodom, Soulfly, and Iced Earth. He is one of the exhibitors slated… Read more

Alongside his day job drumming in French progressive death metal outfit Gojira, Mario Duplantier has spent much of his life drawing and painting, gaining particular inspiration in recent years from… Read more

The Secret Society of Super Villain Artists is an international collective of artists who emphasize comradeship, community, and networking independent of the mainstream art establishment. Read more

Hailing from Orange County, California, Christian Sloan Hall has created some of the most vibrant and distinctive rock and metal artwork of recent years, working with a host of bands including Amon… Read more

A self-taught photographer with a background in marketing, Alison Richards found an new outlet for her passion as a long-time metal fan when she became an official Bloodstock photographer in 2014. A selection of her work was subsequently featured in the RAM gallery in 2015 and now, as well as taking part in 2016’s exhibition, Read more

Tired of seeing the same old guitars and designs, luthier, artist, and musician Cynosure decided to change all that and create stunning, original conceptions he calls ‘functional art’. Each guitar is… Read more

Already established as an artist and frontwoman of metal band Khaotika. Lariyah Hayes has recently branched out into the world of publishing with her first book ‘Darkadya’, a collection of works by… Read more

An English art dealer, gallery owner, author, lecturer, and journalist, Peter Nahum is known for his many appearances on the long running BBC television programme Antiques Roadshow. He is a patron of… Read more

Ramon Martos is the creative mastermind behind the book ‘And Justice for Art – Stories About Heavy Metal Album Covers’, a unique collection of revealing tales about the making of some of the most… Read more

“I’m definitely inspired by the music. I did the photography at Bloodstock last year, which is where the pictures in the exhibition are from. If someone asks me to do a job whether it’s paid or not,… Read more

“Tolkien was always interested in art and I think he’d have been pretty impressed with the sheer size and ambition of some of the pieces aside from anything else, and the technique is obviously very… Read more

“Yeah, there is. The iconography of metal artwork is often fantasy orientated. Before I got involved with Marillion I was doing science fiction and horror book covers and I’d always been interested in… Read more

“I am a guitar luthier and artist, with a ‘uniquely unique’ strategic-building concept. Essentially, my creations are the result of the dichotomy between music and art; one could suggest that my… Read more

“Yes its been quite a journey thus far but not being one to stand still I believe now is the time to bring my creativity under one roof returning to my roots whist embracing the future. I’ve amassed a… Read more

“I was studying at a design college down in Waterford and we had a small one-hour photography class per week. One day my photography teacher said to me ‘You know, you have an eye for this’ but I’d… Read more

Q.Hobgoblin already has links with Bloodstock through sponsoring the festival’s Metal 2 The Masses initiative which seeks to support upcoming bands. Paul Gregory recently designed several t-shirts for Hobgoblin – was this a natural extension of the existing relationship? “We now have an association with Paul and Bloodstock and if you think about the Hobgoblin Read more

This was an unexpected surprise. I’ve known Paul Gregory for some years now. He’s in my humble opinion, a master painter and illustrator. Through the years, I’ve interviewed Paul for the ‘And Justice… Read more