BOB EGGLETON

Bob Eggleton is an Imaginative Realist painter and artist. He was born in 1960 in Massachusetts. At an early age he realized he wanted to do art for a living because he had a talent and knew it. Also with a passion for science fiction, dinosaurs and so on, he combined this love with his art. After attending RIC and RISD, early on, and working in a legendary art supply store called Oakes on The Hill, he finally set off doing book covers and editorial and advertising work. He got successful fairly fast and has won many major awards for his work including 9 Hugo Awards, 12 Chesley Awards, 3 Locus Awards, A Rondo Award and a Mangled Skyscraper Award for his work in various areas of science fiction and fantasy. His work has adorned the covers to such luminaries as HP Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Clive Barker, Buzz Aldrin and William Shatner. He has however had a passion for landscape and seascape work, following and influenced such classic artists as JMW Turner, John Constable, John Martin, Gustave Dore, Albert Bierstadt Casper David Friedrich and Thomas Cole. This is what his latest works lend their voice from. He has explored the world, and had several books of his work published over the last 21 years and in the last 10 years has re-taken back to oil paint.