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Robert Greg Fowke, born 24 July 1950, is a science fiction artist and author of children's books.
Early life and education
Fowke was born to parents Thomas Randall Fowke RN, and Nancy Greg Fowke. He was educated at Swanbourne House School; Marlborough College, and Taunton College of Art now Bridgwater and Taunton College of Art and Design where he studied illustration under John Raynes.
Career as artist
As part of the Young Artists artists' agency founded by John Spencer, subsequently acquired by Alison Eldred during the late 1970s and through to the mid-1980s he produced science fiction and fantasy book covers and art for a number of well-known authors including Robert |A Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Poul Anderson, Anne McCaffrey, Jane Gaskell, H P Lovecraft and Angela Carter.
Examples of his work appeared in several editions of Science Fiction Monthly, he was featured as 'The Artist in Science Fiction' in the October 1974 edtion, and listed under 'Superb Science Fiction Art' in the September 1974 edition together with Chris Foss, Bruce Pennington, Anthony Roberts, Bob Hoberfield and Mike Little.
He worked first in gouache on board and later in acrylic, and then also on board, oil with acrylic underwashes, and gained much of his early inspiration from Renaissance and Reformation painters. Many themes from their work are woven into the backgrounds of his illustrations.
He also illustrated record sleeves, including for Rick Wakeman, and Byzantium. His illustrations of the dinosaurs on the flip cards for Prehistoric Monsters and the Present inserted into packets of Kellogg's cereals, and in France for la Roche aux Fees Les Animaux Prehistoriques et ceux d'Aujourd'hui were avidly collected by many children.
His book cover illustrations also featured on a number of French science fiction and fantasy books, by well known French authors including Paul Bera, Frank Dartell, Robert Clauzell (also on the German edition), Jean Louis Le-May and Gerard Delteil under the Fleuve Noir Anticipaton imprint.
Although a fan of science fiction in his teenage years, his literary tastes developed over time and he began to find the constraints of the form inhibiting. His later work evolved into a re-imagining of Victorian fantasy art.
Career as author
During the 1980s he began writing non-fiction books for children, applying his skill in illustration to the creation of the interior images. He has subsequently wrote and illustrated several series of children's information books published by major UK commercial publishers, some of whom had a policy of designing book covers in-house rather than using Fowke's illustrations. These books appeared mainly in his own name but also as part of the small creative team who formed Lazy Summer Books, who shared writing and illustrating, using pseudonyms, and only occasionally their own names. (Fowke also published under the name of 'Kipjack Johnson').
For adult readers, he has contributed articles to the Guardian newspaper and wrote The Real Ancient Marine, published by Travelbrief Publications, in which he uncovered the the identity of the models for Colegridge's Ancient Mariner and the associations between that figure and other semi-piratical literary models such as Alexander Selkirk and Robinson Crusoe.
Personal life
Currently he continues to write, and occasionally paint, while also helping other writers through YouCaxton Publications which he runs with his friend and colleague, Robert Branton joint inventor of the Memotech computer, bringing together Bob's creativity with Robert Branton's technical and computing expetise.
Comment: blogs are not suitable sources. Theroadislong (talk) 10:05, 3 December 2023 (UTC)