RARELY SEEN THESE DAYS, this large equestrian painting in acrylic, as well as gouache & ink, on board has a multitude of titles, including Ghost Rider. Click on it for enlargement.
Pennington produced it as a personal project in the early 1970s around the time he did the New English Library cover for The Green Brain (1973).
It was later reproduced as a greetings card (without message), as well as on the back of his own book Eschatus, both published by Dragon's World in 1977.
Approximately two metres in height, it forms the showpiece of the Deane Collection in Brisbane, Australia, one of the largest collections of Pennington's work outside Britain.
IN HIS CAREER AS a book cover artist Bruce Pennington produced at least two hundred for many of the most famous authors in the fields of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Below is a small selection, beginning with some of his covers for a series of Ray Bradbury books in the late 1960s.
Originally printed on a silver background, they 'reflected the obsession of the times with all things psychedelic and exotic'.