Autun Purser - Design and Illustration

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

16th May - 27th June 2026 - STORE OPEN!

For just over a month, my new STORE will be open. I have fully revamped this and there are many bits and pieces for sale from my various print and painting ranges. Have a poke about.

16th May 2026 - Last Hainish print available!

I found out from a visitor to my booth at Eastercon2026 that I had not done a design for 'The Telling'... I didnt actually know about that Hainish book! I have now read it, loved it, and preoduced an illustration based on it. This one now joins the others in my STORE - now, finally online..!

26th March 2026 - Ursula K. Le Guin designs

 I have previously illustrated the cover of 'The Word for World is Forest' for Gollancz-Orion, and I have reworked that for the poster design below. I have now completed posters for all of her fantastic 'Hainish Cycle' novels. 

 

I have produced a limited edition signed set of the 6 prints based on these books.

Here are the 6 designs printed on A3 photographic paper. Click on the Image to see the set in more detail...

Here is the design based on the planet from 'Left Hand of Darkness' - what a book! Thanks very much to my models for posing, one in Antarctica, one in Orkney, for this design!

Projects

Icefish paintings

Acrylic paintings of Antarctic icefish.

Neolithic designs

I am working on a range of illustrations based on neolithic sites and finds. 

Analogue photography

Fantastic Travel Destinations

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

Sci-Fi Masterworks

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