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Description: Lakeside Gallery features the art of Linda and Roger Garland, modern symbolist and fantasy artists. Roger Garland is best known for his J R R Tolkien illustrations.
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Lakeside Gallery was established in 1989 by Linda and Roger Garland primarily to exhibit their own work, but also to promote book illustration as a serious art form and to make this accessible to a wider audience. The gallery is open all year round, from 10am - 5:30pm daily.
The Lakeside Gallery has gained a reputation for showing quality artwork and features work by both artists. Current commissioned illustration projects can be seen on exhibition together with private works, limited edition prints, drawings and etchings, all work is for sale. Permanently on show is The Tolkien Collection, over seventy paintings and drawings commissioned by the original publishers for many J R R Tolkien's books. The illustrations from tittles include: The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, T
Born in 1950, Roger grew up in Somerset and attended the Plymouth Art School and the Wolverhampton College of Art and Design. He taught art at Poltair School in Cornwall for ten years and established a career as an illustrator. In 1989, he co-founded Lakeside Gallery, which features a permanent exhibition of Roger's Tolkien-related paintings and drawings. Roger received his first commission from Tolkien's publishers in 1981 and continued to work on the Tolkien titles throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. He
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