Alan Lee by T.M.Eckrich. Retrieved from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (accessed: February 2, 2022).
Alan Lee
, b. 1947
Alan Lee was born and grew up in London, UK, and studied at the Ealing School of Art. Enchanted by myth and fairy tales from a young age, his book Faeries (1978), created with his friend Brian Froud, has sold more than a million copies and is regarded as a fantasy classic. His romantic watercolour paintings and pencil sketches have been compared to the work of Edmurd Dulac and Arthur Rackham. In addition to illustrating dozens of fantasy books, he has also worked as a conceptual designer on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy of films, as well as set design for Legend (1985), Erik the Viking (1989), King Kong (2005) and the TV series Merlin (1998). He works out of a studio in Dartmoor.
Sources:
Official website (accessed: October 20, 2020).
David Barnett, Making fantasy reality: Alan Lee, the man who redrew Middle-earth, theguardian.com, published September 3, 2018 (accessed: October 20, 2020).
Bio prepared by Miriam Riverlea, University of New England, mriverlea@gmail.com
Records in database:
#/media/File:Alan_Lee.jpg){kind=link}