PENNINGTON, Bruce

PENNINGTON, Bruce
(1944-)
   UK illustrator. One of the young sf artists to gain prominence in the 1970s, BP entered the field in 1967 with a cover for Robert A. HEINLEIN's STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND (1961), though at the time he workedprimarily on covers for Westerns and historical novels. Since then he has done sf covers for New English Library, BALLANTINE BOOKS, Corgi and Sphere among others; he was also associated with SCIENCE FICTION MONTHLY. His painting is textured, with brush-strokes showing and strong colour, often featuring surreal landscapes; it is distinctive, vigorous work, but has been criticized for crudeness, maybe because of its contrast with the smooth, airbrushed superrealism that was coming into vogue in the UK at that time. Three books are Eschatus (1977), containing fantasy paintings illustrating the prophecies of Nostradamus,Ultraterranium: The Paintings of Bruce Pennington (1991) and The Bruce Pennington Portfolio (1991).
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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