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Brian Froud (born 1947)<ref name="Greenwood"/> is an English fantasy illustrator and conceptual designer. He is most widely known for his 1978 book Faeries with Alan Lee, and as the conceptual designer of the Jim Henson films The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> According to Wired, Froud is "one of the most pre-emiminent visualizers of the world of faerie and folktale".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Most recently, Froud developed the 2019 streaming television series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

Early lifeEdit

Froud was born in Winchester, England in 1947.<ref name="GLCAEntry">Template:Cite encyclopedia Template:Gale</ref> An only child, he grew up in rural Hampshire<ref name="Horrigan">Template:Cite news</ref> before moving to Kent.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In 1967 he enrolled as a painter at Maidstone College of Art, where he graduated with a first class honors diploma in Graphic Design in 1971.<ref name="Crystal">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

CareerEdit

After graduating, Froud spent five years working as a commercial illustrator in Soho, London before moving to Chagford, Devon in 1975.<ref name="Crystal"/><ref name="People">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Between 1972 and 1976, he illustrated four books by children's author Margaret Mahy<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Are All the Giants Dead? by Mary Norton.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1976, Froud was featured in Once Upon a Time: Some Contemporary Illustrators of Fantasy, a survey of modern British illustrators.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In 1977, an anthology of his artwork, The Land of Froud, was published.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In collaboration with his friend and fellow artist Alan Lee, Froud created the 1978 book Faeries, an illustrated compendium of faerie folklore.<ref name="People"/> Faeries reached number four on the New York Times Best Sellers list,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and by 2003 had sold over five million copies.<ref name="Kiefer">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Froud's artwork in Once Upon a Time and The Land of Froud brought him to the attention of Jim Henson, who sought out Froud to collaborate on his all-puppetry film The Dark Crystal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Froud served as the conceptual designer of The Dark Crystal, released in 1982. The same year, his concept art for the film was published in the companion book The World of the Dark Crystal.<ref name="Cine1983">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Froud was also the conceptual designer for Henson's next feature film, Labyrinth, released in 1986,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> as well as for the pilot episode of Henson's television series The Storyteller, first aired in 1987.<ref name="Storyteller">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Following his collaborations with Henson, Froud's filmography continued; as a designer for the 1989 Japanese animated film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland;<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> as a visual consultant on the 2000 American animated film The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus<ref name="Crystal"/> and P. J. Hogan’s 2003 live-action film Peter Pan;<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and as a concept artist on the 2016 Disney film Pete's Dragon.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Froud returned to working with the Jim Henson Company as the primary conceptual designer of the 2019 Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a prequel to The Dark Crystal.<ref name="Sounds">Template:Cite AV media</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the late 1980s, Froud formed an artistic-literary partnership with Terry Jones, who was a screenwriter on Labyrinth. Together they produced The Goblins of Labyrinth (1986), a companion book containing Froud's concept art for the film,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and subsequently a number of non-Labyrinth-related books about fairies and goblins. Their Lady Cottington series parodied the Cottingley Fairies phenomenon.<ref name="Greenwood">Template:Cite book</ref> For his artwork in the first book of the series, Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book (1994), Froud won the Hugo Award for Best Original Artwork<ref name="Hugo95"/> and the Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration.<ref name="Chesley 1995"/>

In 1991, Froud created over 50 paintings and drawings for his Faerielands series, a collaborative project in which he invited four fantasy authors — Charles de Lint, Patricia A. McKillip, Terri Windling and Midori Snyder — to choose their favourite of his pieces and write stories to go with them, based on the premise that "Faerie, inextricably bound as it is to nature and natural forces, is gravely threatened by the ecological crises that human beings have brought to our world”.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The resulting novels were to be published by Bantam Books.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> However, only de Lint's The Wild Wood and McKillip's Something Rich and Strange were published in 1994 under the banner "Brian Froud's Faerielands" before the project was cancelled.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

His artwork has been exhibited in the United Kingdom and the United States.<ref name="GLCAEntry"/> By 2003, Froud had sold over eight million large-format books of his paintings of fairies.<ref name="Kiefer"/>

Personal lifeEdit

Froud is married to Wendy Froud (née Midener), a puppet-maker and sculptor whom he met at Jim Henson Studios in 1978 while working on The Dark Crystal.<ref name="Crystal"/> The couple married on 31 May 1980, in Chagford.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Their son Toby (born 1984) portrayed the infant of the same name in Labyrinth at the age of one,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and later became a puppeteer and creature fabricator,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> working alongside his parents on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as design supervisor.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Through his son, Froud has one grandson.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Artistic style and influencesEdit

Froud's artwork frequently draws upon fairy tales and European folklore. His paintings of fairies are known for recontexualising Victorian and Edwardian-era beliefs about fairies<ref name="Greenwood"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and were part of a revival of fairy painting seen during the late 20th century.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Among Froud's major influences are the 19th and early 20th-century illustrators Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac,<ref name="Horrigan"/><ref name="Cine1983"/> and Richard Dadd.<ref name="Animazing">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Froud cites the early influence of Rackham, "in particular, [Rackham's] drawings of trees that had faces", as sparking his interest in illustrating fairy tales, and describes having had a love of nature from childhood that has informed his style.<ref name="Nature">Template:Cite magazine</ref> He is frequently inspired by the landscape of Dartmoor.<ref name="Sounds"/> Other influences Froud cites include the Robinson brothers (Thomas, Charles and William),<ref name="Animazing"/> the Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris and Northern European art from the 1500s and 1600s.<ref name="Nature"/> He has stated that he was fascinated by Greek, Druid, Celtic and German 15th-century history and mythology.<ref name="Animazing"/> Froud's work has also been influenced by Arthurian legend, "com[ing] from Glastonbury as a sacred centre".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Jeremiah Horrigan of the Poughkeepsie Journal wrote that Froud's style "echoes not only the great 19th century illustrators he reveres, but also harbors a wealth of elements ranging from Medieval to ancient Celtic and Nordic folk art."<ref name="Horrigan"/>

WorksEdit

Illustration worksEdit

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Brian Froud's Faerielands seriesEdit

Conceptual worksEdit

Awards and nominationsEdit

IllustrationEdit

In 1979, Froud was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Artwork for Plate 12 of his 1977 book, The Land of Froud.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For his 1978 book with Alan Lee, Faeries, Froud won second place in the 1979 Locus Award for Best Art Book<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> (Froud has been a runner up four times through to 2015).<ref name="Froud sfadb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Faeries was also nominated for the 1979 Balrog Award for Best Professional Publication.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The same year, Froud was also runner up for the Locus Award for Best Artist (he has been a runner up four times through to 1999).<ref name="Froud sfadb"/>

Four years later, Froud was a nominee at the 1983 Hugo Awards in the category of Best Non-Fiction Book for The World of the Dark Crystal, for which Froud was the illustrator in a partnership with writer J. J. Llewellyn.<ref name="Hugo83">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The World of the Dark Crystal won fifth place in the 1983 Locus Award for Best Nonfiction/Reference Book.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The same year, Froud was also nominated for the Balrog Award for Best Artist.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Froud was honoured by the World Fantasy Convention with a nomination for the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist in 1991, and again four years later.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1995, Froud won the Hugo Award for Best Original Artwork for his illustrations in Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, a collaboration with writer Terry Jones.<ref name="Hugo95"/> The book also won the Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration, and Froud was also nominated that year for the Chesley Award for Artistic Achievement.<ref name="Chesley 1995"/> For The Wise Woman, Froud won a certificate in the 1995 Spectrum Award for Best Book.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

For his illustrations in Terry Windling's novel, The Wood Wife, Froud was nominated for the BSFA Award for Best Artwork in 1998.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The following year, for his artwork in Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, another collaboration with Windling, Froud won his second Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration<ref name="Chesley 1999"/> (he has been a finalist six times through to 2008).<ref name="Froud sfadb"/>

In 2001, Froud, along with his wife, was awarded the Inkpot Award.<ref name="Inkpot">Inkpot Award</ref> Froud received a lifetime achievement award from the New York Society of Illustrators Museum in 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

FilmEdit

Year Award Category Work(s) Result
1987 BAFTA Film Award Best Special Visual Effects Labyrinth – with Roy Field, George Gibbs and Tony Dunsterville Template:Nominated<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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1987 Saturn Award Best Costume Design Labyrinth – with Ellis Flyte Template:Nominated<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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2020 Concept Art Award Lifetime Achievement The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth Template:Won<ref name="Concept">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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