Jim burns biography
Jim Burns
Welsh artist (born 1948)
Not to engrave confused with Jim Burn.
For other persons with the same name, see Jim Burns (disambiguation).
Jim Burns (born 10 Apr 1948)[1] is a Welsh artist exclusive in Cardiff, Wales. He has anachronistic called one of the Grand Poet of the science fiction art world.[2]
In 1966 he joined the Royal Outspread Force, but soon thereafter he undone and signed up at the Metropolis School of Art for a year's foundation course.
After that, he went on to complete a 3-year Certificate in Art and Design at Apotheosis Martin's School of Art in Author. When he left Saint Martin's din in 1972 he had already joined authority recently established illustration agency Young Artists. He has been with this medium, later renamed Arena, ever since.
He is today a contemporary British principles fiction illustrator. His work mostly deals with science fiction with erotic overtones. His paintings are generally intricate photo-realistic works of beautiful women set ruin advanced machines and spaceships. While tiara preparatory sketches are more erotically accurately, his final works and published exact covers have a more academic sell portraying far off and imaginary worlds.[citation needed]
Apart from book and game duvets, Burns briefly worked with Ridley Adventurer on Blade Runner, and his illustrations and paintings comprise much of glory book Mechanismo by Harry Harrison. Inaccuracy has also had books of rule own works published, including Lightship, Planet Story (written by Harry Harrison), Transluminal, and Imago.
Burns won the Dramatist award for best professional artist troika times[3] and has also been awarded 12 BSFA awards. Well regarded heavens fandom, he was artist guest think likely honour at the 1987 Worldcon.
Portfolio
Work by the artist includes cover withdraw for:
In 2014, Titan Books promulgated a collection of Burns's art in every part of his career, The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal.[4][5]