Looking for a painter to create a London magazine’s front-cover

Hi there everyone – I hope I've posted this in the appropriate place. I work for an independent music magazine which is based in central London; our issues, ranging 3-5,000 per edition, are handed out for free by volunteers outside underground tube stations. As a recurring motif of our design, each front-cover of our magazine celebrates an influential artist/musician/band by an original painting adapted from one of their associated album covers. The painting can take plenty of artistic license with the source material, so long as it would still be recognised by fans who were familiar with the original. For our big launch issue, we're celebrating the work of ‘Blondie', and in particular the album ‘Parallel lines'. (See image here: http://fashionascension.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/parallel.jpg ) The colour-scheme of the painting would be reflected in the magazine's pages, tying the whole thing together into a striking visual piece. Additionally, we'd love to implement other Blondie-inspired artwork (matching the colour-scheme) throughout the magazine to add visual flare; although it's not necessary that this is done by the same artist who paints the front-cover, it's nonetheless based on the front-cover's style. We'd love to find a painter who'd like to work with us on this project. We can't offer any money, but it'd be a chance for your artwork to be featured on the front of thousands of glossy magazines all over the city of London (and obviously we'd encourage you to sign the artwork for attribution). Additionally, unless you'd prefer otherwise, your name and email would be listed in our credits enabling other people to contact you for future commissions. Ideally, we'd like an artist who has experience adapting source-material into new pieces of work; it'd also be important to be able to view some of your previous works online. It'd be useful if you have access to image-scanning utilities, but if not we can happily arrange this for you. About us: we're two graduates who've worked alongside NME and Time Out, and were previously editors of the UK's most awarded student newspaper; we're passionate, crazily dedicated, and even pleasant occasionally. The magazine (www.sleevemagazine.com) caters for slightly older readers than titles like ‘NME' or ‘Karrang!', and is more interested in celebrating and discussing the deeper artistic merits of new music rather than showering everything with instant praise and hype. We're inspired by 70's-era Rolling Stone and gonzo art-journalism; visually, we're influenced by the New Yorker and vintage issues of Vogue (see http://tinyurl.com/3525hoy for an example of what we've got in mind). If you'd like to get in touch with us, could you drop an email over to [email protected] – it'd be best if you could include your name and a few images of your past work. We're looking to get this started, so we're going to prefer people that are available over the next four weeks within their own time. Big thanks!