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Showing posts with label illustrator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustrator. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Ian Miller - In the Artist's Studio

Wyrd Britain celebrates the work of illustrator Ian Miller.
Ian Miller is a British illustrator who has worked mostly in the fields of fantasy, horror and science fiction. 

Over the course of a fifty odd year career Miller has provided his macabrely beautiful, complex linework to book covers and illustrations for works by, among others, H.P Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mervyn Peake, M. John Harrison, James Herbert, Fighting Fantasy, and Games Workshop; for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering; and the movies Wizards, Cool World, and Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's boring but beautiful, MirrorMask.

The video below is a short interview with Miller giving a brief overview of his life and work.  For those of you who wish to delve deeper I can recommend this two part interview and discussion.

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Saturday, 6 September 2014

Arthur Rackham

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the death of one of Britain's finest and most celebrated book illustrators, Arthur Rackham.

Rackham, born in London on 19th September 1867, began his career as an illustrator in 1894 and continued to work up until his death from cancer in 1939.  His dexterous, bold and detailed line work partnered with his eye for the essence of a story, the beauty of his figurework and a sense of mischievous dark humour made him hugely popular at various points in his career and it is a fame that continues unabated to this day.

His portfolio is huge but he is perhaps most notably associated with Alice in Wonderland (for which his illustrations are arguably as famous as those of original illustrator John Tenniel), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Midsummer Night's Dream (along with various other Shakespeare works), Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination and various books of fairy tales from around the world.