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- Mark Roland
- 1639 Grandee Lane
- Santa Rosa, CA 95403
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- (707) 526-4524
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- In 1973 he began to work in color, progressing from gouache to watercolor and to oil and acrylics in the
- late 1970s.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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