Richard A. Kirk | Visual Artist | Author
"there is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion" Sir Frances Bacon, Of Beauty, Essays" 1625
Torpor Vigil Industries has just released new T-shirt designs featuring artwork by me (above), Steve Venright and Kerry Zentner. Please check out them out on the TVI site. While you are there, why not pick up a copy of the Dreaming Like Mad with Dion McGregor CD. The CD, which was recently mentioned in Wired, features the... Continue Reading →
Wonderbook came out this fall. It is beautiful. This is my favorite page. Seriously, the book is a phenom. It's stuffed full of killer art and writing. What the hell else can you ask for? Richard.
I have some work in the new Clavis Journal (this isn't my artwork on the cover).
I have a drawing in the new "Wonderbook" by Jeff VanderMeer. You can find tons of information about the book on his blog Ecstatic Days.
The traycased version of the 25th Anniversary Edition of Weaveworld arrived at my house today. Opening these books was one the proudest moments of my career as an illustrator. Paul Miller at Earthling Publications has done an absolutely spectacular job at realizing this production. My photographs can't do it justice, but you should be able... Continue Reading →
Digging around in my drives I came across this piece from the mid-90s. It was one of a number of images that I created for a collectible card game (CCG) based on Clive Barker's novel Imajica. The project was created by Zehrapushu, a company co-founded by my good friend Hans Rueffert. This was the first... Continue Reading →
I have the okay to show you one of the illustrations from Death Poems. This piece, which I call Remains is a meditation on those things that must be left behind, all our efforts at understanding our lives through collecting, classification, religion and science. This is a Wunderkammer of a finished life, the "dash between dates",... Continue Reading →
It's been a while since my last post so I thought that tonight I'd show you something new. This is the artwork I created for a new edition of Thomas Ligotti's "Death Poems." The cover is a wrap around, meaning what you see on the left is the back cover and what you see on... Continue Reading →
Today I have the pleasure of revealing the cover art that I did for the 25th Anniversary Edition of Clive Barker's Weaveworld. The final design will probably be tweaked slightly from the low res version pictured above. I will always have good memories painting this illustration. It was done in the early summer while I... Continue Reading →
Richard A. Kirk | Visual Artist | Author 