Mark Roland
1639 Grandee Lane
Santa Rosa, CA  95403

(707) 526-4524


Born in Los Angeles in 1954, Mark Roland grew up in San Francisco.  Early influences included Sixties 
poster and album artwork, famed fantasy illustrator Virgil Finlay, and the Northern California landscape.

His earliest published artwork was for the City College of San Francisco's alternative newspaper, THE 
FREE CRITIC.  He worked briefly doing underground comics, then illustration.  A portfolio of his early 
pen and ink drawings, LUMINOUS WIND, was published in 1977.

In 1973 he began to work in color, progressing from gouache to watercolor and to oil and acrylics in the 
late 1970s.

Roland began exhibiting at science fiction conventions in 1975 and has won many awards at them, 
including Best of Show, Best Professional, Best Color, Best Original Fantasy, and Best Monochrome.  He 
began exhibiting in fine art galleries in 1981.  His subject matter is comprised of mythology, literary 
fantasy, and traditional and visionary landscapes.

He was a staff artist for MAGICAL BLEND MAGAZINE for the first ten issues.  He contributed color 
work to Chaosium publications; created the cover artwork for the 1990 reissue of THE DEAD, VOLUME 
ONE; and has worked as a film preproduction designer and muralist.

In the medium of etching, Roland has produced two ongoing suites ("The Enchanted Forest" and "The 
Odyssey"), numerous other monochrome pieces, and multiple-plate color images.