Discworld® & Beyond – a touring exhibition from Lymington’s St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery – features the book jacket art and illustrations of Paul Kidby, best known as the ‘artist of choice’ of best-selling author Sir Terry Pratchett, who passed away from Alzheimer’s disease in spring 2015.

For the past 25 years, Kidby has largely devoted himself to creating illustrations for the popular Discworld series and collaborated with Sir Terry Pratchett closely on the design of the characters and environments described in the books.

Kidby has produced the Discworld book jackets since 2002 and has also illustrated many further publications including The Art of Discworld and best-selling, The Last Hero.

He continues to create Discworld artwork for the Pratchett Estate, which is managed by Terry’s long-standing friend and business partner, Rob Wilkin. A new, fully illustrated book, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium, was published in 2017.

The exhibition displays beautifully realised paintings, drawings and sculptures featuring many of the artist’s favourite characters including Rincewind, the Wee Free Men and, of course, Death, along with a host of witches, wizards, dragons and trolls. It also reveals some of his own work from The Charmed Realm collection, a book created by Kidby and his wife Vanessa on myth and faerie influenced by British folklore and landscapes.