October 2006 – Featured Artist

Richie Fahey

Artists like Richie Fahey are hell bent on preserving a time when everything just felt cooler. Women dressed with style and men wore suits (remember the time when men didn’t wear their pants hanging off of their asses and backwards baseball caps?)

Richie Fahey’s art has been around and in our consciousness for a while now but it was his James Bond covers for Penguin Books that really snagged us. (We bought the whole set recently when it seemed like they might be going out of print!) We were James Bond fans as well but it certainly speaks volumes about Mr Fahey’s appeal when a fan is willing to purchase 14 books in one shot just because of the cover art.

If movie studios wise up they will start hiring Richie Fahey for movie poster art so we won’t have to look at the poorly Photoshopped cut and paste heads anymore.

Richie Fahey brings class and elegance to a genre that was once considered disposable (Crime Fiction novels of yesterday are cool again but for us they have always been the best reading material possible) and makes everything his art graces even more interesting than it might have been otherwise.

His “photography meets classical painter” approach creates some of the most visually stunning work of its kind. While his work evokes the spirit and style of days gone by, there is still something so fresh and original about his work. Richie Fahey is one-of-a-kind artist despite comparisons some might make between him and artists like Robert McGinnis and others.

There is nothing derivative or needlessly nostalgic about Richie Fahey’s work. Like many of us, he obviously prefers the style and tone of the 1940’s & 1950’s and is just creating work that mirrors those times (while giving it a modern sheen.)

Richie Fahey is the real deal. He is a New Yorker (like myself,) and a hell of an artist and we are now lifetime fans of his work and will buy up anything with a Richie Fahey cover attached to it.

Go visit Richie’s web site and tell him you love his work!

Terry Osterhout
October 2006