Thursday 17 April 2014

HERE THERE BE DRAGONS!

Dragons a-plenty!


And not just dragons, but also walking trees, robotic warriors, flying fish, floating cities, machineries of war and a host of other marvels and monstrosities!

I am referring the strangely wondrous worlds of fantasy artist Ian Miller, whose extraordinary visions are celebrated in a new book, The Art of Ian Miller, to which I had the singular honour of contributing a foreword...


A modern master of pen-and-inkery, Ian Miller is a true child of Albrecht Durer, Gustav Dore and Hieronymus Bosch and he has used this exceptional skill to illuminate the dreams and nightmares of such authors as Ray Bradbury, H P Lovecraft, Philip K Dick, Mervyn Peake and J R R Tolkien whose The Lord of the Rings here provides the artist with an opportunity to depict Treebeard and the Ents destroying Saruman's stronghold, Isengard...


 Here a few more striking images from this electrifying portfolio...






 


Written by Ian Miller and Tom Whyte, The Art of Ian Miller is available from Titan Books as a trade edition and as a limited edition in slip-case with a signed print. For full details Click here


And you can visit Ian Miller's website here



1 comment:

Ryan Rasmussen said...

This is exciting news - I first became acquainted with Ian Miller's work in A Tolkien Bestiary many years ago, not long after I first read The Lord of the Rings. Thank you for the heads-up AND congratulations on your contribution!