Fine Art Prints by Gordon Crabb

Gordon Crabb has produced a new set of fine art prints. Many of these can be seen in London at Merchant Archive, the lifestyle and fashion gallery in Queen's Park.

Two more awards for the Varmints film

The film version of Varmints has won the Grand Prix for Best Film as well as the Audience Award for Best Film at the Bradford Animation Festival. The film is directed by Marc Craste and is based on the book written by Helen Ward and illustrated by Marc.

The film is attracting a lot of interest at animation festivals worldwide. For more information go to www.studioaka.com where you'll also be able to see more of Marc's work.

Jim Burns' work for Gillian Wearing

Jim Burns worked on a painting known as "Kim" for Gillian Wearing and was pleased to see that it was sold by Maureen Paley at the Frieze Art Fair. This has been an ongoing series of collaborative work with Gillian, and the earlier paintings were exhibited at the "Regen Projects" Gallery in Los Angeles during the summer.

Sue Burns, The Holburne Portrait Prize

Sue Burns' painting of her son, Joe, has won the most votes from visitors to this exhibition. The Holburne Portrait Prize is an annual competition and it attracts some of the best portrait painters in the South West.

Danielle Steel cover, and Gordon Crabb stock

The new novel by Danielle Steel, A Good Woman, has a Gordon Crabb image on the cover. Gordon has now produced a range of stock shots, many of which are suitable for women's book covers, and these can be found in a special stock section. He is happy to add other elements to tailor them to particular needs. He can cut images out, add backgrounds, soften the colour, etc. Give me a call if you'd like a CD of low res images. 020 8444 9553.

Arthur C Clarke's final book

John Harris was commissioned by Chris Smith of Harper Collins to produce five paintings for publication in the special edition of Arthur C Clarke's last book, The Last Theorem, which was co-written with Frederik Pohl. This edition of the book will be limited to 500 copies and sold through the Harper Collins website.

Patricia Briggs covers by Fred Gambino

Peter Cotton commissioned Fred Gambino to produce three Patricia Briggs covers for Little Brown. Here is more of Fred's illustration.

Two portraits by John Harris

Just occasionally John Harris will produce a portrait or two.

Gillian Wearing exhibition in LA

Here is an interesting review in Art Forum on the exhibition of Gillian's work. She collaborated with Jim Burns for this show. Also some photographs of the work in place.

Eve covers for Tor Books

Gordon Crabb is working on a series of urban fantasy covers which feature a half-Chinese heroine called Evangeline Hollis.

Jim Burns' work for Gillian Wearing

For the past few months Jim Burns has been involved in a large project for the Turner Prize winning British artist, Gillian Wearing. Gillian's concept "focuses on the issue of identity and representation in portraiture" and she commissioned Jim to paint seven different models whom she'd chosen, interviewed and photographed. The paintings are large airbrush versions of Gillian's photography.

Jim has enjoyed the challenge of producing paintings to Gillian's
exacting standards and we wish her well with the show. It opens at the Regen Projects Gallery in Los Angeles on 14th July 2008. The image shown is their ad in Frieze magazine.

Sue Burns at the National Portrait Gallery

Tonight Sue Burns will attend the private view of the BP Portrait Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery where her painting of Jim will be on show. The black eye which Jim had at the time of the painting was the result of walking into a scaffolding pole.

Midnight Library

Fred Gambino's covers for Scholastic's successful series, The Midnight Library, have come to an end. In all, Fred has produced ten covers - here are just some of them.

Yacht painting

Endeavour in the Solent is John Harris's most recent yacht painting. It was commissioned by someone who'd seen one of his series of paintings on board one of the Royal Caribbean cruise liners.

Escape from Planet Earth

Fred Gambino returns to Vancouver this weekend to continue with his job as Art Director for this film being produced by Rainmaker Studios. We can't show you any imagery as yet but keep checking for more news.

Moondance in Spectrum

Gordon Crabb's fine art print image, Moondance, has been chosen by the judges of Spectrum 15. At the time of entering the competition the image was unpublished but Gordon has now started producing high-quality prints of the image and it's proving to be successful at Merchant Archive, the new London venue for stylists and the public to choose from an idiosyncratic range of art, vintage clothing and furniture.

Prints of John Harris Science Fiction Classics

John has now spent thirty years illustrating work by some of the best science fiction writers. We'd like to celebrate that by offering a selection of reasonably-priced prints which include images which act as a reminder of that writing. Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Frederik Pohl, Orson Scott Card, Samuel R Delany, Ben Bova, Allen Steele, and many more. We'll continue to add to the collection and in the mean time feel free to remind me if you think we've left someone out.

Erotic Fantasy Art book

Jim Burns' work is included in a new book to be published by Ilex Press. The book was put together by Aly Fell and Duddlebug and it represents a great collection of the artists working in this field. Three of Jim's pieces were used inside, but this striking cover image is by Henning Ludvigsen.

Some of Jim's images are available as giclee prints.

Sue Burns, BP Portrait exhibition

I can't show you yet but Sue Burns large oil painting of her husband, Jim, has been accepted by the National Portrait Gallery for inclusion in the BP Portrait Exhibition 2008. It's a marvellous painting, called Sunny Jim, and measures 5 ft high.

In the mean time, here are two very different portrait by Sue which show just how versatile she is. Check here to see more, and there should be new additions coming up soon.

The Fire Paintings

We have recently launched a range of twelve high-quality giclee prints of John Harris paintings. The idea came from his current project to produce a film treatment for his idea of "The City of Fire" but we also included some of his earlier science fiction images as these are already well-known. You can always let me know if you'd like a print of any of his other images on the site.

John Harris Hugo nomination

This is the first time John Harris has been nominated for the Hugo and he's delighted to be included this year. He's in
good company. There's a great list of nominees.

Check out his website to see some recent work.

Tor blog and John Harris

We're pleased that John Harris will soon be featured on Tor's new blog. Click here for the recent John Scalzi cover which John has done for them. You can find out more about the Tor blog on here too.

The above illustration, After the Coup, was commissioned for a John Scalzi story, specifically for the blog.