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Varda Creating Stars
Part of a tattoo design with the theme, “Light of Arda.”
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1970 Chevy Chevelle SS
Work in progress Colour sketch
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Glorfindel’s Bane
Private commission. Gouache on board. (29″ x 21″)
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Princes of Sandastre
Gouache on board, 18″ x 11″ Cover art for Princes of Sandastre (Book One of The Perilous Quest for Lyonesse) by Antony Swithin, edited by Mark Sebanc.
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Lords of the Stoney Mountains
Gouache on board, 18″ x 11″ Cover art for The Lords of the Stoney Mountains (Book Two of The Perilous Quest for Lyonesse) by Antony Swithin, edited by Mark Sebanc.
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Gandalf and the Witch King
Private commission. Gouache, 24″ x 18.75″ The challenge was to create images of the protagonists which carry the essence of the descriptions Tolkien gives us. It needed the two opponents to seem dynamic and energized. This was easy enough with the Witch King’s dramatic entrance, whereas Gandalf is described as statue like, a sentinel …
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“He Beheld a Vision of Gondolin Amid the Snow”
Gouache, 17″ x 12″ Among the illustrations submitted for this new edition, this one in particular was key. It astonished me that up to then I had not carefully read the Unfinished Tales account and picked up on this detail. In The Silmarillion, despite that Tuor and Voronwe had come to Gondolin through a winter …
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