Concrete Island (Paladin 1992)

After Robert Maitland crashes his Jaguar on the Westway, he is stranded on the motorway underpass. The architect becomes a modern-day Robinson Crusoe, forced to mesh the reality of his isolation with the overlying metaphor of his peculiarly C20th predicament.

A beautiful image from a series of covers Moore painted for Paladin Flamingo in the early 1990s. Ballard's thematic prose is perennially relevant, and the updating of the cover for a book first published in 1973 (part of Ballard's Urban Disaster trilogy with Crash and High-Rise) is perfectly judged.

Gouache on board
Mount 36 cms x 38 cms
Image 25 cms x 26 cms