{"id":3736,"date":"2016-02-08T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T08:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2016-02-08T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T08:05:59","slug":"a-keith-scaife-taster-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2016\/02\/08\/a-keith-scaife-taster-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Keith Scaife Taster plus ….."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KSIT\"<\/a>As I mentioned a few weeks back Keith Scaife<\/span> <\/a>was kindly looking out some of his original artwork for Jack Higgins covers and here is the first one. Keith writes;
\n“I was born in Hampshire in 1960 before moving up to Staffordshire where from quite an early age it was evident I would follow art as a career in some shape or form. I spent six years at college, first at Leek School of Art and Crafts getting a superb grounding in all aspects of art and design, then to Sunderland to study model making. <\/span>In the mid 1980’s I produced a number of pre-production paintings for a proposed T.V. series ( which sadly never came to be ), but this then led me directly into book jacket illustration, working freelance for many of the major UK publishers”
\nI<\/span><\/span>\u00a0hope to include several more of Keith’s covers over the next few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Penguin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I had a surprising email this week from Penguin asking for\u00a0MY help! They had some original artwork by Neville Dear<\/span> <\/a>and wanted to return it. As I was the only useful\u00a0link they could find they asked if I had contact details? I last met Neville in London in 2013 when I\u00a0took down an email address but must have got it wrong as all emails bounced back but I did remember them\u00a0saying something about the\u00a0M4 and how long a journey it had been. After a quick search or two I located a Neville Dear in South Wales and rang. As luck would have it I got Neville’s wife first try but it wasn’t\u00a0good news as Neville can no longer draw and paint as he is not at all well. I gave Penguin\u00a0his number so hopefully they will get things sorted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are a\u00a0few of my latest additions. I had 4 of the 5 Piccolo ‘Picture Puzzle Books’<\/span> <\/a>and have now managed to get a copy of the elusive number 5. I also mentioned in a past blog ‘Falling Through Space’ the US edition (with dedication to D M W) of ‘<\/span>The Last Enemy<\/span>‘ <\/a>and have added it at the bottom of that page. Just when I though there couldn’t be that many more Daphne du Maurier<\/span> <\/a>covers I’ve found another, the TV Tie-in for ‘Jamaica Inn’ where you can hear the words being spoken.<\/span><\/p>\n

…. and finally what will probably be a weekly item, a few bits and pieces added to the Golden Pan Awards<\/span> <\/a>page which eventually will have scans of all the covers of the featured titles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned a few weeks back Keith Scaife was kindly looking out some of his original artwork for Jack Higgins covers and here is the first one. Keith writes; “I was born in Hampshire in 1960 before moving up to Staffordshire where from quite an early age it was evident I would follow art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}