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The Jim Burns Portfolio
An introductory text accompanies 28 of the artist's fantasy visions of gentle dreamscapes, awesome beasts, startling humanoids and futuristic cars and hardware. Titles are kept to the blank reverse of each plate, making the paintings suitable for framing.
- GenresArt
64 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1991
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About the author
Jim Burns
73 books3 followersLibrarian note: There is more than one author by is name. This is Illustrator Jim Burns predominantly in Science Fiction and Science Fiction erotica genres.
Jim Burns (born April 10, 1948) is a Welsh artist born in Cardiff, Wales. In 1966 he joined the Royal Air Force, but soon thereafter he left and signed up at the Newport School of Art for a year's foundation course. After that, he went on to complete a 3-year Diploma in Art and Design at St. Martin's School of Art in London. When he left St. Martin's in 1972 he had already joined the recently established illustration agency Young Artists. He has been with this agency, later renamed Arena, ever since.
He is a contemporary British science fiction illustrator. His work mostly deals with science fiction with erotic overtones. His paintings are generally intricate photo-realistic works of beautiful women set against advanced machines and spaceships. While his preparatory sketches are more erotically focused, his final works and published book covers have a more academic tone portraying far off and imaginary worlds.[citation needed]
Apart from book and game covers, Burns briefly worked with Ridley Scott on Blade Runner, and his illustrations and paintings comprise much of the book Mechanismo by Harry Harrison. He has also had books of his own works published, including Lightship, Planet Story (written by Harry Harrison), Transluminal, and Imago.
Burns won the Hugo award for best professional artist three times and has also been awarded 12 BSFA awards. Well regarded in fandom, he was artist guest of honour at the 1987 Worldcon.
Jim Burns (born April 10, 1948) is a Welsh artist born in Cardiff, Wales. In 1966 he joined the Royal Air Force, but soon thereafter he left and signed up at the Newport School of Art for a year's foundation course. After that, he went on to complete a 3-year Diploma in Art and Design at St. Martin's School of Art in London. When he left St. Martin's in 1972 he had already joined the recently established illustration agency Young Artists. He has been with this agency, later renamed Arena, ever since.
He is a contemporary British science fiction illustrator. His work mostly deals with science fiction with erotic overtones. His paintings are generally intricate photo-realistic works of beautiful women set against advanced machines and spaceships. While his preparatory sketches are more erotically focused, his final works and published book covers have a more academic tone portraying far off and imaginary worlds.[citation needed]
Apart from book and game covers, Burns briefly worked with Ridley Scott on Blade Runner, and his illustrations and paintings comprise much of the book Mechanismo by Harry Harrison. He has also had books of his own works published, including Lightship, Planet Story (written by Harry Harrison), Transluminal, and Imago.
Burns won the Hugo award for best professional artist three times and has also been awarded 12 BSFA awards. Well regarded in fandom, he was artist guest of honour at the 1987 Worldcon.
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October 15, 2015
This is part of the Paper Tiger Portfolio series - where they took (sadly the publisher is no more) some of their most popular artists and selected some of their most famous works and printed them in these over sized books. I guess their intention was to allow the fan to turn them in to posters as each page was perforated allowing easy separation of the pages. However for a fan like myself who wants to keep them in the book format its a bit of a challenge appreciating the work while not encouraging the books to self destruct.
In the case of this book it was Jim Burns who takes centre stage - now for British science fiction and fantasy books Jim Burns is (in my personal view) as accomplished and as well published as Michael Whelan from America. His work is able to invoke truly fantastic scenes and yet retain a sense of realism I think is missing from many other artists works. As a result I think many a day has been spent day dreaming of alien vistas and incredible adventures spurred on by the mastery ofJim Burns.
My only real disappointment with this book was that there were such a wide range of works here across so few pages that obviously there was going to be a proportion I didnt like - and looking back I realise now that it was a celebration of his work - so of course there would be no new work present just bigger and better prints of what has gone before. So if you a real fan of Jim Burns this is a must have (although if you are that big a fan you would already have the world elsewhere).
In the case of this book it was Jim Burns who takes centre stage - now for British science fiction and fantasy books Jim Burns is (in my personal view) as accomplished and as well published as Michael Whelan from America. His work is able to invoke truly fantastic scenes and yet retain a sense of realism I think is missing from many other artists works. As a result I think many a day has been spent day dreaming of alien vistas and incredible adventures spurred on by the mastery ofJim Burns.
My only real disappointment with this book was that there were such a wide range of works here across so few pages that obviously there was going to be a proportion I didnt like - and looking back I realise now that it was a celebration of his work - so of course there would be no new work present just bigger and better prints of what has gone before. So if you a real fan of Jim Burns this is a must have (although if you are that big a fan you would already have the world elsewhere).
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