Josh Kirby Collection

[Swifty]

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Family of Discworld illustrator seek wealthy patron to conserve legacy of ‘one of the great artists of our time’​

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...egacy-of-one-of-the-great-artists-of-our-time

Has anyone here got seven figures to preserve Kirby's art?.

https://www.joshkirbyart.com/gallery

 

[Frideswide]

Oh I wish!

 

[Stormkhan]

I'd love to help, but ...

 

[Mythopoeika]

If only I could win the lottery.

 

[Yithian]

I've said elsewhere that there were three strands that got me started with reading fantasy and science fiction (and then into wargaming and roleplaying):

• My teacher reading our class The Hobbit when I was 8 to 9-years-old: I was transported and painting miniatures (badly) within the year.
• Choose-your-own-adventure books from the much-loved school book sales (not actually the Fighting Fantasy ones, strangely).
• Spotting Josh Kirby's cover artwork for The Colour of Magic on my art teacher's desk at age 11 and being allowed to borrow the book.

I think part of the appeal of Kirby's work is that where some artists prefer to cleverly imply the world beyond the frame, he often seems determined to give you a direct taster of a good deal of it by making his pictures so gloriously bustling; that's part of the reason why they support repeated viewings--there are small pleasures to be found lurking under every flagstone.

 

[Stormkhan]

I was so sad when Kirby stopped doing the Pratchett covers.