Chris Foss

Chris Foss , born 1946 in Guernsey is a unique British artist who pioneered a much-imitated style featuring vast, colourful spaceships, machines and cities, often marked with mysterious symbols. Foss' images of future technology had the same iconic "defining" quality that  H. R. Giger's would have in terms of depictions of alien or future life forms.A unique art style created over a thousand painted artworks used as bookcovers for authors such as Isaac Asimov,E. E. Doc Smith, Arthur C. Clarke, A. E. Van Vogt and Philip K. Dick . Foss' transformative influence is still strongly felt in art , cinema and beyond to this day,nearly a half a century later.

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Chris Foss was a gifted artist since childhood ,winning local art prizes and always doodling . His upbringing in immediate post World War II Britain had an immense impact on young Master Foss and his art

,and before he revolutionized the look of science fiction , a young still at university Foss sent some drawings in an unsolicited letter to Bob Guccione who actually personally responded by hiring him to do some illustrations for Penthouse Magazine .This led to a big surge in popularity amongst his university peers in Cambridge as well as Foss providing the original black and white illustrations for the #1 New York Times best selling book ,The Joy of Sex.

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In 1975, Foss was hired by film director Alejandro Jodorowsky along with Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, Orson Welles, Pink Floyd and a cast of hip classic 70's artists,fashionistas, financiers and assorted oddballs for the first official intended film version of the science-fiction novel Dune by author Frank Herbert He delivered several conceptual studies published in the book 21st Century Foss, ISBN 90-6332-571-1, containing a foreword by Jodorowsky. The Film project was a glorious failure, as immortalized 40 years later in the Jodorowsky's Dune (2013) documentary film, but by 1977 Foss was already a legend ,working for several months on studies for the movie Alien with Ridley Scott and doing the designs of the planet Krypton for the 1978 worldwide box office smash Superman

,with official filmwork including Stanley Kubrick’s A.I.
and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 & 2.

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For more info, please visit the official Chris Foss website :

http://www.chrisfossart.com/