This is wonderful. Such a huge fan of yours, Mr Foss. Just picked up a set of your trading cards from a few years back 😉 absolutely brilliant artist. Thank you for sharing

Hello Chis. I would be very interested to know what surface you are painting on. Is is paper? If so what type of paper is it? I'm about to start painting again after a 40 year break and I'm pretty sure the cartridge paper I used as a teenager isn't the best thing to paint on. I'd love to know what you use. Anyhow, thanks for the videos, they're great fun to watch.

As a teen in the 70s and 80s I was mesmerised by this guy's sci-fi art and his ability to transport you to far away, bizarre and imaginative alien worlds through concept art. Amazing talent and pure genius imagination!

Love it😍👍

Dear Chris. I am the French fan (since my childhood) who ordered you the Snow-cat re-interpretation painting, two years ago, through this Guernesey art gallery. I just wanted to tell you that this is a pure jewel of Art that I still cherish everyday🙏

The whiskey in the airbrush anecdote! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Really enjoying watching these. Thank you so much for recording them. Video's like these need to be made of important artists at work, discussing the in's and out's and telling fun anecdotes. There where a couple missing from this play list. Did they get deleted by accident?

Your art appeared on the cover of SciFi books that shaped my younger years. Eternal thanks to you for sparking my imagination. I took art lessons and did loads of pencil drawings. I never applied color and moved on to playing music, but thanks again for the inspiration you gave me. I also loved your concept work for Alien.

"Slan" & "Gods Themselves" covers were better as where "Dirac FTL" painting in of "Science of Science Fiction" by Peter Nichols

Upper right corner craft resembles a Victorian proposal for a rocket powered airship.

Is there a book or catalog for this exhibition that I could buy? I'm on the west coast of Canada and as a result I'm unable to see it in person.

Guys like Chris Foss are what is missing in modern sci-fi. There are no more memorable spaceship designs or visual worldbuilding. It's OK to focus on characters and acting, but science fiction by virtue of its visuals gives you an extra something that you can't get in any other genre. And those visuals can be just as important. Been a fan of Chris Foss and his contemporaries since the Terran Trade Authority.

So deserved. Legend.

Chris - Ever since I got 21st Century Foss in 1978, your work really influenced my art. Collecting your illustrations has been fun. Love watching you work. Thanks for all the lessons.

Hi Chris , wondered where you got to. My number one Sci-Fi artist of all time. Love you man. Take care now.

So you're saying I have to travel from Canada to Guernsey

What a lovely exhibition. A lot of effort has been put into it. Greetings from Germany.

Wonderful to see Chris Foss so recognised. I have long admired his work from the sci-fi covers of 'Doc' EE Smith's Lensman novels and recently bought Chris' album 'Hardware'. Hugely exciting and imaginative. The show looks to be worth the trip to Guernsey!

Looks great! Tour please!

Great info in these speeches. And very nice to hear he is still active and has this great exhibition. This video is a historical document of the master himself. I bought one of his art books some weeks ago and it is still in shrink wrap because I want to save this for a special moment. Thanks for your works Chris Foss!

What a great and wondeful Illustrator and artist. I have been a fan since i bought his 20th Century Foss art book .

my childhood memories of Chris's work inspired me to read alot of sci fi. His art was instantly recognizable. He helped shape the sci fi themes we see today.

Bravo Chris! A living legend. I hope to get down and see this exhibition soon.

Chris Foss is the instigator of so many people’s Science Fiction journey. Thank you Chris.

Spice Container is the my favorite artwork from Foss. I have it as one of my wallpapers

Chris Foss you truly are a master of your craft. Thank you so much for sharing the tips of your talents with us!

I'm glad to see someone now standing up to the tyrant Kubrick

Amazing! And from the Man himself!

And then it stopped.

The old man's still got it! Real life "working" machines, particularly heavy plants and specialised vehicles, have that aesthetic where function absolutely dictates form. Foss imparts that aesthetic on space ships, stations, and other cosmic installations. The twist is that we, the 21st century onlookers, often have no idea what function might be served by all the bizarre bits and pieces of a Fossian ship --- but the "industrial ugliness" of the bristling antennae, the plating, the warning stripes and checkers, it all tells us that the ship is there to kick ass and take names.

Have always loved your work Chris. You're a true inspiration!

My youth coming alive

Wonderful and iconic artist, his work has helped sell many books for authors. Jim Burns is also a favourite of mine.

Dystopian parody of male bias erotica where Jesus Christ's crotch was reincarnated as an Edwardian locomotive devouring victims to ejaculate vomit gnawed bloody bones for new rail transit tracks.

dystopian

Resembles Xcor Aerospace rocket engine and airships.

Man, thanks for being around. Finally I found you. I have a book full with your art, I can't find it though but man, did you spike my imagination and my fantasy. Love you.

I happen to own a book called 'The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction' and this illustration is given a full page. I was always captivated the ship's comical, almost drunk and lurching appearance; The juxtapositon of high technology with asymmetric and lumbering engines. Fascinating to hear the illustrator's thoughts on his process. Many thanks for posting the vid 😁

How many? Only 92 likes for Chris Foss? Unacceptable!

What a great art

Fantastic to see you do a more skeletal ship with an open body, its guts on view...

Just recently I was watching that weird Philip k. dick speech at Metz, France 1977 where he introduces his concept of orthogonal reality and I like to believe that such thing exist and in one of those orthogonal worlds, Jorodowski's Dune was completed

Such an extraordinary talent. Thanks for sharing this glimpse of your artistic process with the world.

Hello, always been a sci fi lover and loved your art since I was a kid, was born early 70ies and do cherish my original 21st century foss artbook since then ! Thanks and hope to see more flashy colored gigantic baroque interstellar spaceships in the future ! Cheers !

Just bought my third copy of "The Complete SF Works of Chris Foss" not because I'm a nutcase with OCD but because people keep "borrowing" them and not bringing them back

Thank you so very much for sharing your work with us Chris. I have been a huge fan of your work since i was a child, i am now an artist in my mid 50's now and you are still an inspiration!

That's a great idea for an addition to a print!

This looks very unique 👌

The soundtrack is such a pleasant surprise. RIP Marc Bell

You are a HUGE influence and inspiration to my ship designs over the years. I have quite a few fave designers, but its your "Color Schemes" that stand above the rest. I wish more "Films" would design ships that had more than grey and white colors (especially bigger ships). Been a fan since ALIEN . . . thank you for being a mentor from afar :).

Do a line of models of your ships. Would make a fortune