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Zion National Park Plein Air Invitational. One of the nation’s biggest plein air events will be held at Zion National Park November 5-11, 2018. I am pleased to be one of the invited [...]

when 10/3/2018 – 10/6/2018 where Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts 2200 South State Street, Mt. Carmel, Utah 84755 United States This fall I will be participating in the second [...]

Two day outdoor workshop at historic Mt. Carmel. This workshop will focus on the old barns and structures around this pioneer town near East Zion. Plan to spend a little time each day having [...]

Love Utah’s canyon country and supporting working artists and artisans? Make plans now to attend the premier art event of the Colorado Plateau – the 14th Annual Escalante Canyons Art [...]

I will be participating at Plein Air Utah 2018. 100’s of artists will gather for this fun event now in its second year. The Plein Air Artists of Utah and the Midway Art Association team up [...]

I have been invited to be a presenter at The Maynard Dixon Country Event, a gathering of artists, collectors, community, and friends who love art. Three days of demonstrations, seminars, and [...]

I am exciting to be an invited artist at the 2018 Maynard Dixon Country event sponsored by the Thunderbird Foundation at Mount Carmel Utah. 22 Guest artists will join together for seminars [...]

Tony and Wendy Kraatz with their new painting  called “Retired.” It is a watercolor painting of an old Fordson tractor with the metal wheels located on the Mathews Ranch. It even had [...]

Watercolor Painting of the Carthage Jail in Illinois

I share an unusual plein air painting experience in “Postcards from the Road” in the August/September 2018 issue of Plein Air Magazine. You’ll find me on the very last page next [...]

Giclee Print of the Cedar City LDS Temple

Giclee Print of the St. George LDS Temple

I’ve just released my popular instructional video Workshop #13 on my Youtube channel “Roland Lee Studio.”  The subject is “How to Paint a Desert Sky and Corrals” and [...]

It was so much fun to trade the hot desert red rocks for the cool Spruces and Glaciers of Alaska for a while. We enjoyed an inside passage cruise with my brothers and sisters and I really liked [...]

There’s still time to register for Plein Air Utah September 12-15 in Midway Utah. Paint outdoors with dozens of the best outdoor painters, and enjoy seminars, and demos. Everyone who [...]

Grateful to have my painting and those of my two sons, Jim and Jon, exhibited at the UWS 2018 Small Paintings Show. Also pleased that my painting won an Award of Merit.  

It was fun to have Plein Air Magazine editor Kelly Kane include one of my funny plein air painting experiences in the August/September 2018 issue. 

I am honored to be invited to participate in the Maynard Dixon Country August 22-25, 2018. Thanks to Paul and Susan Bingham of the Thunderbird Foundation for including my painting “Desert [...]

I was happy to be notified that my painting “Zion Narrows” received the Jurors Award at the 2018 Spring UWS exhibit held at the Visual Arts Institute in Salt Lake City. I also learned [...]

I was grateful to have two paintings juried into the Spring Utah Watercolor Society Exhibition. The show runs May 11 through June 15 at the Visual Arts Institute in Salt Lake City.

I enjoyed painting outdoors with the Plein Air Painters of Utah at Vermillion Cliffs and Marble Canyon Arizona April 25-28, 2018. The weather was perfect as we explored off road trails leading to [...]

The Plein Air Painters of Utah will meet for four days of outdoor painting at the Vermilian Cliffs and Marble Canyon area of Arizona April 25 – 28, 2018.

I will be Participating, and helping with the outdoor painting groups at the 2018 Plein Air Utah event in Midway Utah Sept 12-15, 2018. In it’s second year, the event is co-hosted by Midway [...]

The invited artists have been announced for the 2018 Zion National Park Plein Air Invitational. I am pleased to see my name on the list. This is one of the biggest plein air events in the nation [...]