I haven't been able to find biographical data of Colin Saxton yet. He is probaby born in 1927 and I suspect he is the same person who wrote the book Art School. This book is an instructional guide based on the teaching of leading art colleges. Quite simply it is a complete art course covering every aspect of theory and practice. The text is clear and down to earth, supported by hundreds of magnificent photographs and illustrations. Every section contains specially designed projects to test your developing skills, and to help assess your progress there are examples of other students work and their tutor,s comments and assessment. I found paintings by Colin auctioned in the UK in 2004 and 2005. Colin probably taught at the Bradford College of Art during (at least) the fifties and sixties.
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This artwork was done for the cover of the UK hardcover edition of Dragonsinger, the second volume in the Harper Hall trilogy. As far as I know showing this art here is also the first time this original piece is to be seen on the internet in colour. Anne McCaffrey owns the original and my friend and fellow Pern Archivist, Cheryl Miller, and I were fortunate to be able to photograph it during our May 2002 visit to Anne at Dragonhold-Underhill in Ireland. I haven't been able to locate the original art for the other Pern cover Colin did, for Dragondrums, the last volume in the trilogy. The art for that cover was originally used for a limited edition poster titled F'nor and Canth of which Anne commissioned one thousand copies for the 1972 World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles, California. All these posters were signed by Anne but half of them were reportedly lost in shipping. I have never come across a copy of even a good picture of a copy and haven't been able to find a copy at Anne's house and archives. Neither did I find the original artwork for it there. © Copyright by Colin Saxton, all rights reserved. |
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| The original artwork for the Dragonsinger cover has a prominent place in Anne's hallway at her house Dragonhold-Underhill. A uniquely interesting fact about Colin Saxton's dragons is that Anne has stated in at least two interviews (first in 1983, and the other much more recently) that Colin Saxton's dragons most closely capture her own image of Pernese dragons. © Photograph by Hans van der Boom 2002, all rights reserved. |
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