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- Book of Merlin by Alan Lee
The classic picture shown on the right here is towards the end of the story of King Arthur’s life by TH White and a wonderful depiction by Alan Lee of both King Arthur and Merlin. This beautiful painting, well actually a combination of drawing and watercolour painting, was reproduced as a fine-art limited edition print that has always been popular. The detail in the picture is incredible and really evokes the whole scene so well. This was of course drawn and painted prior to Alan Lee’s rise to fame with the Lord of the Rings trilogy that earned him such high awards. When you look at the quality of his drawing and painting it is not surprising. Actually, it is more surprising that it took so long for the general public to become aware of such talent. But then we always seem to rate our film and pop celebrities way above our artists. That perhaps says something about our modern culture or a lack of it. At any rate, it is quite certain that Alan Lee’s work will be enjoyed as long as there are people on the planet to enjoy it and will be an inspiration to many future artists. Why not click the comments button and tell us what Alan Lee’s art means to you?
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Tolkien artist extraordinaire John Howe who worked with Alan Lee on Peter Jackson’s epic Lord of the Rings film trilogy will be attending Comic Con in San Diego this summer, an event which he says he is quite looking forward to. More news on exactly what he’ll be doing there is not available. Apparently it depends on what his editor tells him he’ll be doing there. Let’s hope the editor knows …
Some curious things happen to the names of many of the artists whose prints or original work are featured on Artists UK
For instance, Brian Froud hangs up his brush and becomes the relative of a famous psychologist as Bryan Freud whilst rather more appropriately Peter Pracownik becomes Peter Peacenik. Patrick Woodroffe only has to suffer his name being unintelligently mis-spelled by the spellcheck as Patrick Woodruff. Whilst Rodney Matthews becomes the grand master Rod Ney Maîtres. Stuart Dilley finds himself with a problem as Stuart Dilemme and Ed Org perhaps has rather more fun as Ed Orges!
This is of course of no interest whatsoever to John Howe, Alan Lee, Jim Burns, Robert Gould and Roger Dean whose names are entirely unaffected. Well, I hope you enjoyed that. All the best from Kish Savary 
We have a massive long list of unsolicited customer testimonials on our ecommerce website at www.artistsuk.co.uk but it isn’t that often we get to see our customers in these days of impersonal Internet ordering. One of our customers was so impressed with the Christmas gift he bought from us for his wife and how happy she was with it he emailed us with a photo of her with the framed print and thanked us for being there to provide it…..
“The print arrived in great shape and has already been framed. I attached a picture of my wife with her print. My wife really loved it and I wanted to thank you for your help in acquiring it. My wife said Alan Lee was a big inspiration for her in her art career. The only problem now is that she can’t decide what room of the house to put it in. She wants to be able to look at it all the time and doesn’t know what room is best. It will probably end up in her Art Studio so that she can look at it while she paints.”
It is nice to be appreciated! Thanks!
The BBC are looking for buyers who will appear on the programme. In case you don’t know, the programme is based around a family selling off items to raise money and it supports a charity. The items are sold on the programme and buyers come and pick up the items and hand over the payment for it. So;if you are interested in buying a framed Alan Lee Limited Edition and getting your fizzog on the box at the same time you can give Molly a ring on the number below … but you’ll need to move quick coz it’s Saturday week! Here are the details:-
Original framed signed Alan Lee print of the Sword in Stone for sale as part of BBC One TV show. For purposes of filming we need whoever buys the print to appear on camera and pick it up in Sanderstead, Surrey on Saturday 19th Jan. Anyone interested can contact Molly at Reef TV on 020 7836 8595. We’re looking for around £70 for the framed print but all offers welcome.
Lily Maid of Astolat by artist