About The Artist

David A. Hardy is the longest-established living space artist in the West. He illustrated his first space book in 1954 (for Patrick Moore), and produced his first SF covers in 1970. He has continued to work happily in both worlds, and is European Vice President of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA) and Vice President of the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA); he is also a past Chairman of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group (UK). He has provided images for 'The Sky at Night' from 1957 to the present day, and now works digitally on a Mac, as well as still painting ‘traditionally’ for commissions, exhibitions, etc. Apart from his book and cover work, David has produced art for TV (including 'Blake's Seven'), video, computer games, and movies such as 'The Neverending Story'. He has written and illustrated eight of his own non-fiction books, plus a novel, 'Aurora: A Child of Two Worlds', which was published by Cosmos in 2003, David was nominated for the Artist Hugo in 1979, was awarded 'Best Cover' by Analog readers in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007, and his recent book with Sir Patrick Moore, 'Futures: 50 Years in Space' (AAPPL, 2004/paperback 2006 as '50 Years in Space') received the Sir Arthur Clarke award in 2005 and was also nominated for a Hugo in that year. A highly-illustrated book about Hardy’s life and work, 'Hardyware: The Art of David A. Hardy', was published by Paper Tiger in 2001. He has produced a DVD, 'Space Musik', which is available from his website: http://www.astroart.org, which also contains many examples of his work, much of it for sale as prints, plus originals, merchandise such as clocks and hand-painted ties, many links to other sites, video tutorials on space art, and much more. In 2003 an asteroid was named after him! (For more information see website above.)