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I was pleased to be awarded Signature Membership in the Utah Watercolor Society at their membership meeting in Salt Lake City. Acceptance in eight annual shows are required for admittance. My [...]

Just finished a couple of new paintings of the Zion Narrows in Zion National Park. I’m probably getting too old to safely walk on slippery bowling balls through rushing ice-cold water, but [...]

  I will have lots of new original watercolor paintings on display at the St. George Art Festival April 14-15. Be sure stop by my display (Booth C-15). Now in it’s 38th year, this [...]

I am pleased to have two of my paintings grace the pages of the beautiful “Sojourns Magazine.” If you haven’t seen this amazing magazine yet, you need to either join the Zion [...]

Salt Lake Magazine ran an article featuring my paintings and discussed my eight-year participation in the Zion National Park Plein Air Art Invitational. “Art of Wonder, Roland Lee [...]

A glorious autumn week in Zion National Park with nothing more to do than paint — now this is what every artist dreams. I was thrilled to join with 23 other invited artists who spent the [...]

The National Park paintings of Roland Lee and Royden Card are on display through November 13, 2016 at Gallery 35 in St. George UT. In conjunction with the National Parks Centennial, Arts to Zion [...]

Writer Lyman Hafen wrote an article for Etched magazine about the 2016 Zion National Park Plein Air Art event. I am fortunate that he chose me as the featured artist as he discussed how I paint [...]

At the recent opening of the fall Utah Watercolor Exhibit I was very pleased to win the “Juror’s Award” for my painting “Misty Morning Zion.” But I was completely [...]

I had the privilege recently to participate in a great outdoor oil painting workshop with one of my favorite plein air artists, Brian Mark Taylor. What a pleasure to be able to watch him sort out [...]

I was pleased to have two paintings juried in to the Fall 2016 Utah Watercolor Society Exhibition to be held next month in Salt Lake City. The exhibit begins with a reception on October 7 and [...]

Come see  original paintings completed during the Cedar Breaks National Monument Arts Afire event. The show has been extended until September 15, 2016 at the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA) in [...]

Roland Lee’s painting “Joy in the Morning” and several quotes by Roland Lee about the Centennial of the National Park Service appear in the July 2016 issue of “Western Art [...]

What a fun show! That’s the way most people are describing the new multi media production at the OC Tanner amphitheater at Zion. “Sanctuary, the Story of Zion” was written by [...]

What a fantastic week! I was joined by ten other nationally known artist for a week of plein air painting at Cedar Breaks National Monument. The 10,000 ft. elevation made it cool and beautiful as [...]

Thanks to the collectors who purchase six of my paintings at the Opening Reception of the Arts Afire Cedar Breaks Plein Air Show  opening at the Southern Utah Museum of Art  July 16, 2016. Thanks [...]

I’m so excited about my new series of Step-by-step watercolor painting videos. Available for instant download on Vimeo, the latest video features a start to finish real-time demonstration [...]

It was a special week as  some of the top plein air artists in the country converged on the Maynard Dixon Studio in Mt. Carmel, Utah for the “Maynard Dixon Country Campout.” A week of [...]

I am honored to be featured in a new production at the Dixie State University O.C. Tanner Amphitheater at Zion National park. Written by Sam Payne, and produced by Steve Lemmon, the show is [...]

A film crew came to Zion last week to videotape an interview with Roland Lee about his life of painting in Zion National Park. The video will be part of a special production that will be [...]

Check out my 3-minute video describing my new painting of Bryce Canyon which is being exhibited at the St. George Art Museum through August 2016.

Thanks to Jane Bell Myer at Illume Gallery for hosting the popular “Where in the World is Plein Air” event June 8,9,10 2016. I was invited to participate this year and chose Zion [...]

After my Plein Air watercolor workshop last Saturday I met up with my grandkids Max, Dallin, Brianna, and Becca to do a little outdoor “plein air sketching” in Zion National Park. It [...]

The weather was perfect except for a little wind in the afternoon. But what a glorious day to paint outdoors. I enjoyed doing a plein air painting demonstration for a small group of exceptional [...]