Biografie:
J.K. Potter, innovative fantasy photographer, darkroom alchemist and airbrush artist, is the illustrator of over 30 books and hundreds of mass market book covers. Using many tools developed in the 1930s and before, J.K prefers the use of low tech methods of hand printed, hand colored black and white photography to the use of modern computers for creating his bizarre images. His motto is "just because it doesn't exist doesn't mean it can't be photographed." He photographs his own source materials and delights in using his friends as models in his eerily beautiful and often disturbing pictures.
In Addition to creating stunning illustrations for the fiction of J.G. Ballard, Stephen King, Lucius Shepard, Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker and others, J.K. has also created a large body of personal work in which he continually explores the far reaches of his turbulent imagination.
All artwork in Potter's Blue Dot exhibit are limited edition prints of dimensions 20 x 16", signed and numbered, a limited edition of 100, black and white hand-printed by the artist.
The first book anthology of J.K. Potter's work is entitled HORRIPILATIONS, which is a term for goose pimples or the bristling of hair from effects of terror, a not uncommon occurance when viewing Potter's art. HORRIPILATIONS, introduced by master of horror Stephen King, was released in the U.S. in the fall of 1995 by the Overlook Press.
A two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, J.K. Potter lives in rural Massachusetts.
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