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ARTISTS
Scott Listfield
Scott Listfield is known for his paintings featuring a lone exploratory astronaut lost in a landscape cluttered with pop culture icons, corporate logos, and tongue-in-cheek science fiction references. Scott grew up in Boston and studied art at Dartmouth College. After some time spent living abroad, Scott returned to America and, after watching 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time, began painting astronauts and, sometimes, dinosaurs. He now lives and works in Los Angeles.
Scott regularly exhibits his work in galleries and museums around the world, and his paintings have been profiled in Juxtapoz, Wired Magazine, and The Boston Globe. A book on his paintings is now available from Paragon Books.
Mary Ancilla Martinez
Artist Mary Ancilla Martinez finds inspiration in themes exploring a variety of predominantly feminine archetypes. She works using fairy tales, folk tales, myths and legends from around the world, as well as nature and her own life experiences. Currently living in Torrance, California, Martinez enjoys painting mystical, wild, free, ethereal places where unseen greets seen. She finds satisfaction in depicting mystery with paint, where dark weaves through light and land meets sea and sky. She appreciates the exploration of dreams, mythology, archetypes, alchemy and metaphysics. She is deeply inspired by nature, by the secret whispers of desert winds, the language of trees, the dynamism of the elements, and the infinity of the stars and cosmos.
Greg Spalenka
After graduating from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California in 1982, Greg moved to New York City and began illustrating for America’s most prominent publishers of books, magazines, and newspapers. Two decades later he worked as a concept designer on feature CG animated and live action films such as The Ant Bully, The Golden Compass, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Escape From Planet Earth.
Considered a cross disciplinary artist, Greg loves to work in different mediums, from high touch to high tech, paint to pixels, photography to music, film to books.
To inspire and nurture art career sustainability he founded the educational service, Artist As Brand® to help talented individuals create their own unique art businesses."
Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan is one of the world’s premier painters of imaginative realism.
For more than 40 years he has created book and album covers for authors and musicians like Isaac Asimov, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Brandon Sanderson, the Jacksons and MeatLoaf. His clients have included every major U.S. book publisher, the National Geographic Society, CBS Records, and the Franklin Mint.
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As the most honored artist in Science Fiction, Michael has won an unprecedented 15 Hugo Awards (SF’s Oscar), 3 World Fantasy Awards, and 13 Chesleys from the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. The readers of Locus Magazine (for SF insiders) have named him Best Professional Artist 31 times in their annual poll and the Spectrum Annual of the Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art named him a Grand Master in 2004. Other noteworthy awards include a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators, a Vargas Award, a Grumbacher Gold Medal, and the Solstice Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America.
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In 2009, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in Seattle, the first living artist to be named to the distinguished list that features such luminaries as H.G. Wells, Steven Spielberg, Rod Serling, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Whelan paintings are rich in symbolism and offer many layers of meaning to be explored, but Michael Whelan’s lifelong passion has been to live up to his favorite quote from G.K Chesterton: “The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.”
Jim Fitzpatrick
The finest Irish illustrator and artist of our time.
James Thomas Fitzpatrick is a graphic artist, writer, illustrator and photographer best known for his complex adaptations of the tales of the old Irish gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines of Early Irish Myth and Legend in obsessive, painstaking detail -and also for his iconic Thin Lizzy album covers.
His most famous and immediately recognisable art work is his iconic red and black portrait of Che Guevara, who Fitzpatrick met in 1961.
Jim Fitzpatrick is also proud of the two stamp collections he created for An Post, the Irish state postal service.
Jim has exhibited his art globally and is available for purchase through his website.
To purchase Jim Fitzpatrick’s art or to contact him click on the link below https://jimfitzpatrick.com/
