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Main image: Alan Lee at the Schwabischer Lindwurm award, 2016. Photo by T. M. Eckrich, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Alan Lee was born in Middlesex in 1947 and trained in graphic design at Ealing School of Art. He has worked as a freelance illustrator since 1970.
In 1975 he moved to Chagford, on the edge of Dartmoor, with the artists Brian Froud and Marja Kruyt. Together with Froud he made the book Faeries (1978) while they shared lodgings in Chagford.
He illustrated centenary and later editions of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1993 for Black Ships Before Troy. As a conceptual designer on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films he shared the 2004 Academy Award for Best Art Direction for The Return of the King.
He has shown work at Green Hill Arts in Moretonhampstead, including the Widdershins mythic arts exhibitions.
Sources: chrisbeetles.com; en.wikipedia.org; en.wikipedia.org; vasw.org.uk; www.goodreads.com
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