![]() While working shifts as a conductor on the Glasgow buses, he began more serious paintings such as ‘Mars Expedition over Deimos’ (1960), in oils, with amazing amounts of detail. His early paintings featured space battles in comic-strip style, but they weren’t published until a Daily Mail story about him many years later. His interest in space and science fiction was stimulated by a visit to the Kelvingrove Museum in 1945, to see a German V1 and V2 captured at the end of World War 2, and he began painting on space themes after the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. Mars Expedition over Deimos, 1960, ‘New Worlds for Old’ Plate 3 ![]() In Aug 1962 he had completed a 3-year evening course in Process Retouching at Stow College, and in 1962/63 he completed an evening course in Technical Illustration at the Glasgow School of Art, but gave up training as a commercial artist to look after his ailing mother, who died of cancer in 1967. He was one of four pupils from Queen’s Park Secondary sent on a Special Art Course at Castle Toward in 1958, run by the Glasgow Corporation Education Dept. Ed attended Calder Street Primary School and Queen’s Park Senior Secondary, leaving in 1958 with Highers in English and Art and a Lower in Geography. They were married on June 30th 1939, in Cathcart, and the parental home was 711 Cathcart Road. His parents were Percival Edmund Buckley, described at the time of Ed’s birth as a “ladies’ mantle cutter”, and Sarah Buckley, née McCann. But of them all, Glasgow-based Edmund David Buckley, who died on 25th August 2021, was one of the world’s finest space artists, though he kept his light mostly under a bushel and published little except for illustrating my books, particularly in the 1970s and 80s.Įd was born on 13th November 1940, at St Francis Maternity Hospital on Merryland Street in Govan. 1971, photo by David Adamsįrom time to time in this column I’ve drawn on the work of Scottish space artists Gavin Roberts, Andy Paterson and Sydney Jordan, mostly from my own books. ![]() Ed Buckley with Scorpius mural, ASTRA rooms, Hamilton.
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