Newsletter March 2020 - weird times

Sale time - 10% discount

The world has gone mad since the last newsletter. However, we're lucky that we can sell originals and prints to keep the artists afloat during these rocky times, and to make the most of this, until the end of April, I'm offering a 10 per cent discount on all the originals and prints currently for sale on my website.

Working at home is nothing new to us. We're all hermits already so we're used to that. Some of the artists are working on long-term projects so they'll hardly notice the difference, but it might be harder to find new work so I'm going to try this.

For instance, you could buy this piece of original Shrek concept art by Ian Miller.

For Greek Myths though, I'm delighted to say that Bloomsbury have commissioned Olivia Lomenech Gill to illustrate Medusa, the new book by Jessie Burton.  Olivia says:  'I have loved the challenge of illustrating the "real" story of a mythical character, bridging both the historical and the contemporary. In classic Greek and later Renaissance art, depictions of Medusa vary from utterly monstrous to just a really bad hairdo, but she never comes across well, and never, in my view, comes close to being either beautiful, real or relatable.' In The Bookseller

The two names will be for ever linked, since 1979 when Ian's work was used in A Tolkien Bestiary. And as Brian Sibley, long-time Tolkien collaborator with Ian, so eloquently describes the work in his introduction to The Art of Ian Miller: 'upheaval and rebellion . . . are ever-present concepts. The clashes and conflicts depicted may be intimate or vast: animal and plant-life colliding with brutish machineries or armies of robots, men or mutants marching into ruinous onslaughts.'

As for me, I just love the way Ian can show all that intensity and in such fine detail. We now have two beautiful new giclee prints of his Tolkien images to offer. This is a detail from Black Rider.