British Artist Colin Hay produced many airbrushed SF book covers during the 70′s – Authors of which included: Paul Anderson, John Sladek, Ian Watson, Clifford D Simak, Philip K Dick and many more..
Intricate textures in a style not dissimilar to Chris Foss.
See more of Colin’s superbly rendered airbrushing here at his agency portfolio site: http://www.chameleon-arts.com/colin-hay/folio3.html
Scan Taken from Paper Tigers 1977 release“The Flights of Icarus”.
Oh I really like this one… is it from the 80′s? I kind of has that look about it.
Hey – It actually predates the 80′s – late 70′s I think – I believe it’s artwork produced as part of the “Terran Trade Authority” – more on that here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terran_Trade_Authority
and here:
http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/TTABooks/TTABooks.html
Oh it definitely was in the TTA books. I remember it from the “Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD” book I had as a child.