Goodfellow, Peter
Entry updated 27 October 2024. Tagged: Artist.
(1950-2022) UK artist and illustrator who studied art at Middlesbrough College of Art 1967-1968 and the Central School of Art in London 1967-1971. He began to publish work of genre interest in 1972 with the UK Sidgwick and Jackson edition of Arthur C Clarke's Tales from the White Hart (coll of linked stories 1957), showing the titular Club-Story pub being overwhelmed by a giant squid. From then until the late 1990s he painted many book covers for genre authors including Ray Bradbury, David Brin, Philip K Dick, Thomas M Disch, Stephen R Donaldson, Philip José Farmer, Frank Herbert, Tanith Lee, Olaf Stapledon and Ian Watson. One of his paintings, an archetypal fantasy landscape, appeared on the jacket of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) edited by John Clute and John Grant. Recognized as a leading European illustrator, he also worked in package design and advertising, and contributed artwork to Jeff Wayne's album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978).
From 1995 Goodfellow devoted himself more and more to traditional landscape painting, which had long been his forte; this move was highly successful and the resulting work, now of course shorn of genre trappings, was widely exhibited. Very different was his quirky one-man show "Treason of the Scholars" (2015), comprising paintings created in bitter Parody of the supposed non-artists (Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst et al) favoured by the judges of the Turner Prize; these works were assembled in book form as Treason of the Scholars (graph 2015) with polemical essay contributions by Duncan Macmillan, Roger Scruton and David Starkey. [DRL]
Peter George Goodfellow
born Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire: 14 June 1950
died Aberdeen, Scotland: 11 December 2022
works
- Treason of the Scholars (London: Panter and Hall, 2015) [graph: with essays by others: hb/Peter Goodfellow]
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