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
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 →
There is very little that I can add to what has already been said about Mervyn Peake, other than to say what a deep and enduring impact his work has had on my own. His world was revealed to me through the worn covers of the Penguin Modern Classics Editions that sat on a wire... Continue Reading →
Richard A. Kirk | Visual Artist | Author 