Trap Door: Playing (Original)

Artist: Nick Potter
Medium: Pen & Ink on Card
Size: 12" x 7" (300mm x 180mm)
Date: 1988
Code: PotterTDPlaying

This is the unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Nick Potter.

The Trap Door was a claymation-style animated television series, originally shown in the UK in 1984. The plot revolves around both the daily lives and the misadventures of a group of monsters living in a castle. Willie Rushton voiced the characters.

The show has since become a cult favourite and remains one of the most widely recognised kids' shows of the 1980s.

The show was created by British animators Terry Brain and Charlie Mills. Later, Terry Brain went on to be an animator with Aardman Animations and has since worked on the six Wallace and Gromit animated films, as well as the animated film Chicken Run.

This adaptation by Nick Potter was published in Look-in magazine issue 52,1988.

• Artist Biography
  Nick Potter (born 8 January 1947; Kent, UK)
  Born in Kent, swiftly transported to South East London and raised by an academic father and dressmaker mother who called him Nicholas.
  
  They played him jazz and gospel records on a 78rpm wind up record player. They gave him paper and pencils and told him 'Art isn't just short for Arthur'.
  
  After spells in Somerset, the Midlands and Brighton, training as a painter and printmaker and working in bakeries, bars and building sites he returned to London and remembered his mothers words... and became an Artist not an Arthur.
  
  During his artistic career, Nick has drawn many newspaper and comic strips, including Dogtanian, The Trapdoor, Man and Best Friend, and Speak to me Victor.