Alien Worlds

Alien beings and alien worlds have been adorning the covers of legendary sci fi novels for years. In fact, Art and science fiction go together like cheese and biscuits (or chocolate and more chocolate!).

Nothing compliments a fantastic science fiction story like a magnificent cover. Nowadays, though, there are limited numbers of artists capable of creating the sort of extra-terrestrial vista that a really great story deserves – and even fewer who can produce the sort of work that you’d like to hang on your wall. Such artists are indeed an endangered species!

But fortunately, endangered is not the same thing as extinct and I and delighted to have found at least one such artist – the amazing David Jackson aka RedBubble’s Alien Visitor.

Just take a look at the following images.

City in Flight

Who would not want to join the crew of this massive inter-galactic starship, trawling the universe in some long distant future? Who could resist reading the story behind this glorious image?

Party Headquarters

Reminiscent of the planet Trantor from Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ series. This is a world devoid of natural beauty – filled to the brim with city. But this image would not only inspire the average self-respecting sci fi enthusiast to buy the book, they’d be hard pressed not to want this one hanging on their wall too.

Green Hills of Home

What could compliment Robert A. Heinlein’s famous story The Green Hills of Earth better than this?

We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the friendly skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.

It yearns, it demands, to feature on any serious sci fi buff’s wall – a monument to a great author, a tribute to a glorious genre, a window to a fantastic world.

Be sure to check out David Jackson’s amazing collection of alien worlds at RedBubble.

Flower Power

It’s not that hard to take photographs of flowers – though don’t expect to see me do it because it is not my forte. So when you see horticultural art that takes your breath away – well that’s something very special indeed. That is an artist you need to see.

One photographic artist I have found definately fits this bill, and that is pene. She shoots beautiful macros and some wicked infrared photographs, but just take a look at these two superb images.

Sun Dew



Firstly, it is an exceptional macro. But macro just means close-up and for all of it’s technical brilliance, it is not art.

But this is art. Look at the image we have here. It is a glorious flower, adorned with dew. It is the morning, it is the beginning, it is creation in the making. The dew and the flower are life – and life at a scale and at a time that we are seldom able to perceive.

It also presents us with a tease – which way round is this flower? It is so hard to define – it dares us to make a judgement, but denies us any chance of ever determining whether we are right or wrong. You can look at this image on your wall for days, weeks and months yet never tire of it’s complexities, it’s symmetries, or it’s sheer beauty.

Reach For The Sky



This picture is full of vibrance and life. The flowers almost appear to go on forever, but the foreground three are presented almost as a sample for our admiration. They are not shown top-down, as is usual to present their blooms as a final fait accompli. They stretch upward – oblivious to our observations. They present themselves to the sun, to the sky, to the birds – to all that is above but certainly not to us. For we are there to appreciate, not to be appreciated.

You can see more of her work at her RedBubble Site