Patrick Woodroffe

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Patrick James Woodroffe (born October 27, 1940 in Halifax , West Yorkshire , † May 10, 2014 ) was a British artist who was best known for his fantasy and science fiction art, with his pictures having strong echoes of surrealism . He gained fame mainly through working with musicians and bands and illustrations for books.

Career

Woodroffe was born in West Yorkshire in 1940, the son of an electrical engineer. In 1964 he graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in French and German before turning more to the arts, which led to a first exhibition of pencil and ink drawings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London . It was not until 1972 that he turned completely to art and booked a first exhibition of his paintings, drawings, etchings and related works of art in the Covent Garden Gallery in London.

His breakthrough came when he illustrated around 90 book covers for Corgi Verlag between 1973 and 1976, including Peter Valentine Timlett's The Seedbearers (1975) and Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber (1974). At the same time he received his first commissions to design record sleeves, including for Judas Priest 's album Sad Wings of Destiny (1976). In 1976 this led to an exhibition of book and record covers he designed at Mel Calman's Workshop Gallery in London . In the same year the children's book Micky's New Home with illustrations by Woodroffe and the book The Adventures of Tinker the Hole Eating Duck appeared . In 1978 an exhibition with more than 200 works followed in the historic Piece Hall in Halifax.

In 1979 Woodroffe created the elaborate illustrations for the album The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony : The Birth and Death of a World , a joint project with former Colosseum keyboardist Dave Greenslade . The album consisted of a double LP from Greenslade and a 47-page book of Woodroffe's illustrations. More than 50,000 copies were sold between 1979 and 1984. The illustrations were also exhibited at the 1979 World Science Fiction Convention in Brighton's Metropole Hotel. In 1983 he designed the cover for the debut album of the neo-progressive band Pallas , whose logos he also created. The following year he directed the artwork for Mike Batt's 1984 musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark . at.

Woodroffe died on May 10, 2014 after a long illness.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prog Cover Artist Patrick Woodroffe Dead At 74 :: Pallas News . antiMusic.com. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ * Woodroffe, Patrick (1986), 1986 A Closer Look (at the art and techniques of Patrick Woodroffe) Published by Paper Tiger ISBN 1-85028-024-X
  3. ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on May 17, 2014. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ * Woodroffe, Patrick (1986), 1986 A Closer Look (at the art and techniques of Patrick Woodroffe) Published by Paper Tiger ISBN 1-85028-024-X
  5. ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on May 17, 2014. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  6. ↑ * Woodroffe, Patrick (1986), 1986 A Closer Look (at the art and techniques of Patrick Woodroffe) Published by Paper Tiger ISBN 1-85028-024-X
  7. ↑ * Woodroffe, Patrick (1986), 1986 A Closer Look (at the art and techniques of Patrick Woodroffe) Published by Paper Tiger ISBN 1-85028-024-X
  8. ↑ http://www.antimusic.com/news/14/May/13Prog_Cover_Artist_Patrick_Woodroffe_Dead_At_74.shtml
  9. ↑ http://www.antimusic.com/news/14/May/13Prog_Cover_Artist_Patrick_Woodroffe_Dead_At_74.shtml
  10. ↑ http://prog.teamrock.com/news/2014-05-12/prog-artist-woodroffe-dead-at-74
  11. ↑ * Woodroffe, Patrick (1986), 1986 A Closer Look (at the art and techniques of Patrick Woodroffe) Published by Paper Tiger ISBN 1-85028-024-X
  12. ↑ http://www.artistsuk.co.uk/acatalog/Patrick_Woodroffe_artist.html
personal data
SURNAME Woodroffe, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woodroffe, Patrick James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax , West Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2014