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Magic Spotlight Series – Liverpool 2025

Exhibition Centre 31st October 2025

Art: Mark Poole

   At the end of October 2025 I had the privilege of being invited to attend this Magic the Gathering event along with fellow fantasy artist David O’Connor and our agent / facilitator and fellow art lover Guy Coulson. I haven’t had a lot to do with Wizard of the Coast for many years, but I have had a continuous stream of interest from the wonderful MTG fans over the years in the form of artist proof signings and original art creation on the back of said artist proofs.

   The Magic spotlight series is a collection of open invite events, run by Fanfinity, that let anyone play high level ‘Magic’, win awesome prizes and gather to see who has the skill to claim ‘Magic’ greatness, so says the Magic spotlight website and this definitely is what I witnessed that weekend. I have been out of the MTG loop for some time, but from what I ascertained the theme of this event, or the latest IP they have acquired, was Marvel’s ‘Spiderman’.

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Etienne Le Comte

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            Often seen around the streets of Brighton, Etienne’s work stands out as your brain tries to absorb the multiple vanishing points and seemingly endless detail on detail. Etienne produces large street murals as well as smaller framed pieces with nice line work and Manga / Sci-fi overtones.

Try with 3D glasses. This piece can be seen on a wall in Trafalgar St, Brighton. Just down from the station. Or if you have just woken up from crazy surgery and the drugs still havn’t worn off

            Managing to finally catch the busy bee, I get him to let us in on his personal creative world.

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Carl Youri

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            A multi talented artist, all round positive and interesting character, Carl  is always up for being creative and getting involved in projects, when he’s not knee deep in his own personal creative universe. He’s done all sorts over the years, carework, web design, e-learning content, illustration, film making, making music, doing visuals as well as plenty of travelling.

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Anthony Martin

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Awesome cinematic feel.

            Some recent social media post browsing brought to my attention an old colleague’s work which really popped out at me. I knew he was a film buff, but I realized his mind and skills are far more cinematic than I ever knew. I first met him when he did post production lighting and render magic on our environments while we were working on ‘Friends and Heroes’ for ‘The Charactershop’ at Pebble Mill in Brum in the early ‘Noughties’.

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