Nonetheless, I have held numerous exhibitions, from the first at the London Planetarium in 1968 -- leading to the publication of my first fine art print, Stellar Radiance, which actually reached No. 6 in the Top Ten Prints list of 1970 -- to many in Britain, Germany, France, Holland, and several cities in the USA. Sometimes these were paintings created specially: at other times they were exhibitions of what started out as illustrations for various books etc., but which people still wanted to buy as originals. My work is also in a number of private collections, and I was once commissioned to paint a 24-ft mural. (I'd like to do more!)

In the USA, sales of my originals and prints are handled by the Novaspace Gallery in Tucson, Arizona.

My print Proxima's Planet (left) became a bestseller. In the UK or Europe, please contact me at AstroArt.

Here's an impression of the Galileo probe passing across the tortured landscape of Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io. This appeared in 'Sky and Telescope', and in various books, including the late Carl Sagan's 'A Pale Blue Dot' (Random House, 1994), for which I was also delighted to provide the jacket illustration.

In fact, Carl was about to use my painting 'Terraformed Mars', but Arthur C. Clarke had already chosen that for the cover of his 'The Snows of Olympus' (Victor Gollancz, 1994). So, just in time, I suggested that an alternative version with oceans, Terra Nova, be used on 'Pale Blue Dot'. This is also available as a Novagraphics print, while 'Terraformed Mars' was included on the CD-ROM on the Mars 96 probe which, sadly, was fired into the South Pacific... Hopefully, it will now be sent to Mars on a later probe.