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Galadriel and Celeborn at Lake Evendim
Gouache, 17″ x 11.75″ I was excited to do this piece, based on a thumbnail taken from old concept ideas for Unfinished Tales. It offers a rare glimpse of the Elf queen and her mate Celeborn outside Lothlórien, during their long wanderings across the breadth of Middle-earth.
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Amon Rûdh
Gouache, 16″ x 11″ I was very glad to do this piece, which takes us up close to the mountain, and epitomizes the Northern landscape themes and settings of First Age tales, in particular. Mim and Turin can be seen standing under an overhang above the others. But the main interest for me was the …
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Aldarion Returns From His First Voyage
Gouache, 19.75″ x 12″ Long a favourite tale from the book, it meant a lot to be able to include this scene in my submissions for Unfinished Tales. My thumbnail was quite basic for this scene, and I fleshed it out by deciding we should see something of the land across the sound/firth, and the …
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The Oathtaking of Cirion and Eorl
Gouache, 15.5″ x 10.5″ This 2020 version improves greatly on my early 1990s version, swinging the view toward the westering sun, and taking advantage of the rich colours implied. It also carefully renders the figures said to be present, and some indications of squires. Snow upon the White Mountains reduced because the scene occurs in …
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A Seat For the Rabble
Gouache, 16.5″ x 11.5″ Sara Sothron flees a sacred temple set ablaze by rebels. Cover art for A Seat for the Rabble by Ryan Schuette.
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Ithilien
Private commission. Gouache, 18″ x 12″ Detail of Frodo and Samwise:
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The Fellowship Approaches Moria
Private commission. Gouache, 13″ x 8″ Incorporates an interpretation of the Swiss mountain at Lake Oeschinen which Tolkien would have seen in 1911, which later inspired the Middle-earth version.
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Annuminas
Private commission.
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Approaching Edoras
Private commission.
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