Autun Purser - Design and Illustration

Thanks for visiting my website. Here, I display a number of my current and past illustrative projects, as well as offering for purchase some of my output. 

 

I am a deep sea ecologist for a living, with a sideline in illustration - particularly science and science fiction related. I am perhaps best known for mr 'Fantastic Travel Destinations' series of posters, advertising the dubious delights of locations from fiction, or my recent covers for the 'Best of Science Fiction Masterworks' series of classic science fiction books, by Gollancz-Orion.

 

CURRENTLY REDESIGNING THE WEBSITE - CHECK BACK IN A FEW DAYS IF YOU ENCOUNTER PROBLEMS!

6th October - current news

The Bunker 66 art show is over. The 8 of us artists had a great time - thanks a lot for coming, all of you who made it!

 

I am having a revamp of the webpage - I will be updating many of the pages over the next few days, and setting up the shop again. 

Icefish paintings

As some of you might know, I was part of the research team discovering the largest expanse of nesting icefish on Earth. I have now completed a series of 10 paintings of these nesting fish... roughiy 0.00005% of the number of nests we found...

Neolithic designs

I am working on a range of illustrations based on neolithic sites and finds. A selection can be seen here.

Seed Pods game

I have been working on a hand-drawn multiplayer computer game. See and read more here....

Fantastic Travel Destinations

I have produced 60+ designs in my 'Fantastic Travel Destinations' range - see a selection here.

Museum sketches

Museums are fantastic places to make sketches.  Here are a selection.

Antarctic Photography

I have recently started taking analog cameras with me to Antarctica. Here are some of the results.

Giclee prints

I am producing limited edition digital print runs of some of my designs. All hand drawn but coloured digitally..

Sci-Fi Masterworks

I had the pleasure of producing all the covers for the 'Best of Science Fiction Masterworks' for Gollancz-Orion..

A to Z Animals

II made an A to Z book with some unusual animals....