Bruce Pennington (born 10 May 1944, in Somerset, England) is a British painter, best known for his science fiction and fantasy novel cover art. Pennington’s works have largely featured on the covers of novels of Isaac Asimov, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert A. Heinlein, adopting both science fiction and fantastical themes. His past of speculation and youthful wonderment lead to his current outlandish form and style.
Pennington’s works are largely characterised by bold, daring colours; rich pinks and blues sustaining his continuing motifs of speculation as well as precise brush strokes, harmonious pigment blending as well as the acute concentration in the detail of his depicted subjects, usually landscapes of other times or worlds.
Pennington attended the Ravensbourne School of Art in Bromley during the early 1960s. He began working as a freelance illustrator in 1967.In 1976, Paper Tiger Books published an LP-sized graphic album, Eschatus, featuring Pennington’s paintings inspired by the prophecies of Nostradamus. They followed this, in 1991, with a graphic album, Ultraterranium, collecting various private and commercial works.
BRUCE PENNINGTON – Equator by Brian W. Aldiss – 1973 New English Library – cover by flickrBRUCE PENNINGTON – The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe – 1983 Arrow Books – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Lost Worlds: Volume 2 by Clark Ashton Smith – 1975 Panther Books – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Bug-Eyed Monsters by Anthony Cheetham – 1974 Panther Books – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Pirates of the Asteroids by Isaac Asimov – 1973 New English Library – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs – 1963 New English Library – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Riverworld and Other Stories by Philip José Farmer – 1981 Granada Books – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – The Pawns of Null-A by A.E. van Vogt – 1974 Sphere Books – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – The Abominations of Yondo by Clark Ashton Smith – 1974 Panther Books – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – The Battle of Forever by A. E. van Vogt – 1973 New English Library – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein – 1969 New English Library – antiqbook.comBRUCE PENNINGTON – A Scent of New-Mown Hay Oct 1968 John Blackburn New English Library – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – National Lampoon’s Doon by Ellis Weiner – 1985 New English Library – cover by twitter.comBRUCE PENNINGTON – The Green Brain by Frank Herbert – 1973 New English Library & Science Fiction Monthly – June 1974BRUCE PENNINGTON – A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg – 1975 Panther Books – cover by FlickrBRUCE PENNINGTON – The Hermit by T. Lobsang Rampa – 1971 Corgi Books – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – The Horror Horn and Other Stories: The Best Horror Stories of E. F. Benson – 1974 Panther Books – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Backflash by Laurence James – 1975 Sphere Books – cover by googleBRUCE PENNINGTON – Impossible Possibilities by Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier – 1974 Mayflower Books – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Cults of Unreason by Christopher Evans – 1974 Panther Books – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – The Big Sun of Mercury by Isaac Asimov – 1974 New English Library – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Quest for the Future by A. E. van Vogt – 1972 New English Library – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Beyond the Curtain of Dark by Peter Haining – 1972BRUCE PENNINGTON – The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein – 1969 New English Library – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Police Your Planet by Lester del Rey & Erik Van Lhin – 1978 New English Library – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Indoctrinaire by Christopher Priest – 1971 New English Library – cover by isfdbBRUCE PENNINGTON – Genius Loci and Other Tales by Clark Ashton Smith – 1975 Panther Books – cover by isfdb
