Abandon

This limited edition print revisits the artwork for Deep Purple’s 1998 album, Abandon. It has been overseen by original artist Ioannis, who relished the opportunity to do so:`

“The band had just completed Abandon and were late getting the cover art together. I sat in their manager Bruce Payne’s office along with Roger Glover who, as well as being the bass player and producer, was the art director for the band whenever I worked with them. We discussed a series of ideas and about a week later I brought them several concepts – the cover that eventually became Abandon was one of them. After that I worked with Roger on a tour book, and designed merchandise for the Abandon tour. There had been a huge rush to get the album art finished, approved, and off to the printers. Because of this, although it is one of my favourite images, I always regretted the fact that I did not have the time to work on it as I would have liked. In the creation of this edition of prints I had the chance to revisit the original source material and painstakingly recreate the artwork with all the depth and detail that I had always seen in my mind’s eye. I think what we have made, Hypergallery and myself together with the talented printers at Visual Impact, is very striking.” Ioannis

© 1998 Ioannis, reproduced here with permission.