Paul Kidby

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Kidby's cover of The Science of Discworld, which is a parody of the painting "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" by Joseph Wright.
Kidby's cover of The Science of Discworld, which is a parody of the painting "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" by Joseph Wright.

Paul Kidby (born 1964) is an English artist. He was born in Northolt and is currently living and working in Fordingbridge, New Forest. To many people, he is best known for his art based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld, which is included as the sleeve covers since Josh Kirby, another English artist often confused with Kidby, died in 2001.

He drew a lot during his childhood and adolescence, but left school with few qualifications to his name.

Later Kidby was trained as a dental technician making false teeth, but abandoned this to become a freelance artist in 1986. He produced artwork for a variety of products ranging from video film sleeves to computer game packaging.

Between 1991 and 1995 Future Publishing employed him and he designed and painted more than 200 magazine covers.

In 1995 he started working exclusively for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, and his Discworld art, and many descriptions of the pieces, are included in The Pratchett Portfolio (1996) and The Art of Discworld (2004). These showcase full versions of work and some paintings previously unseen. He also illustrated The Last Hero, a Discworld "fable" and number one bestseller in the UK, selling more than 235,000 copies[1].

His art is in several cases a tribute to (or a parody of) well known paitings such as the Mona Lisa[2] by Leonardo da Vinci , Night Watch [3] by Rembrandt and An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright.

  1. ^ http://www.paulkidby.com/biography/index.html
  2. ^ Kidby painted the Mona Ogg which is on the cover of The Art of Discworld.
  3. ^ Kidby's version is featuted on the cover of Night Watch.


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