Five-Time Hugo Award Recipient Is Way Ahead of NASA

Why spend billions of dollars just to get to Mars when we can travel across dimensions of reality with BRAD FOSTER for a few dollars? Brad Foster is Jabberwocky Graphix". A fine arts graduate of Texas A & M, Brad has been a prominent part of the arts community for many years. His specialty is fantasy art and his literary illustrations have been published around the worl

(PRWEB) February 9, 2004 --Why spend billions of dollars just to get to Mars when we can travel across dimensions of reality with BRAD FOSTER for a few dollars?

Brad Foster is Jabberwocky Graphix". A fine arts graduate of Texas A & M, Brad has been a prominent part of the arts community for many years. His specialty is fantasy art and his literary illustrations have been published around the world. He is regarded as one of the worlds foremost fantasy art illustrators and his works have earned him five Hugo Awards (Sci-Fis equivalent to an Oscar). He shares his real world with his lovely wife, Cindy, and their very spoiled cat, Sable.

Jabberwocky? Think back to your English Lit class - - NOOooo! NO! Never!" you say? - - Well, okay. Ill spell it out for you. Jabberwocky is a poem by Lewis Carroll that was featured in Through the Looking Glass, his sequel to Alice in Wonderland. The nonsensical poem employs many invented words and is about a fearsome dragonlike creature, the jabberwock, that is slain by a heroic young man.

But Brads version of nonsensical things is better defined not with nonsensical words, as in Jabberwocky, but with things that are beyond our ability to sense, to see, feel, hear as part of the world we know. Brad has created an entirely new world of the non-seen, non-felt, non-experienced. The subjects of his work include a mixture of things we should be grateful do not exist in our reality and things that, perhaps, should. His 'what-if world is called Argent Park, where living tissue is comprised of metals instead of carbon and water.

Works like Argent Park, Stalking Moon, Brothers in Spirit and Night Floater give a peek inside the world Brad has created and some of the things that live there. Outside Argent Park, but not necessarily this side of Mars, are many other Foster works that reveal a gleeful, mischievous artist at work. Works like Ralph vs. Ralph, Beware the Guard Dragon and Where Does a Drunk Dragon Sleep? Still others demonstrate the artist has managed to retain a deep appreciation for the beauty and majesty of the real world, Leopard, Winter Wolf, Tiger and Wonder. Even then, though, his unique view of the world often bleeds through, as in the grass depicted in the negative space in his otherwise lifelike Lion.

Brads work is currently on display and available for purchase in his virtual booth in the Fine Arts section of OurCraftShow.com, a recently launched online arts and crafts show. In fact, Brad Foster is the only booth accepted thus far in OurCraftShow.coms very closely juried Fine Arts section. Almost all of the pieces offered there are numbered and signed limited edition prints, true art collectors items, and some are even more sought after artist enhanced prints, such as Rainbow Cats.

In Through the Looking Glass Alice reads the poem, Jabberwocky, and remarks, Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - - only I dont exactly know what they are!" Given Alices observation it seems Brad Fosters Jabberwocky Graphix" could not have been more aptly named.

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Photo (available if not attached): Brad Foster in his real world booth with his some" world works of art; On the right is a tribute to the nursery rhyme, The Lion and the Unicorn.

Note to Editor: Brad Foster is available for interview and additional information and materials.