Last Updated or created 2026-07-14

While browsing the Internet, something popped up.
An image of a spaceship, and I instantly remembered where I’ve seen it before.

When I was a teenager I got hold of a book from Chris Foss, it was a large book with only around 8-10 pages.

But I loved the images.
(I shamefully admit, that I traded the book for something else a long time ago)
46x29cm printed in 1977
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At that time I had several artists that really peaked my interest in graphical arts.
I still love to paint and draw.

List of artists

Maurits Cornelis Escher https://mcescher.com/

A dutch artist know for impossible drawings.
He used woodcut, lithograph and mezzotint.
(I tried to do a mezzotint using a copper pcb plate)

H.G Giger https://www.hrgigermuseum.com/

A Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as “biomechanical”.
He designed for several movies : Alien, Species and Dune

Banksy https://www.banksy.co.uk/

Makes statues, installations and stencil art.
The latter I really love. Tried to make some myself.

Hajime Sorayama

Airbrush master

Nico Vrielink https://nicovrielink.eu/

Mostly asian ladies (his wife). I like the long linestrokes.

Back to Chris Foss. https://chrisfossart.com/

Made many Science fiction book covers, but also a great influence of spaceships in multiple movies.

The images I recognized from 40+ years ago:

A more recent artist I discovered (10-ish years ago) is Zdzisław Beksiński.
https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdzislaw-beksinski
He was a Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor.

Reminds me of : Bag of Bones a 1998 horror novel by Stephen King.