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I was excited to learn my watercolor painting “Railroad Summit” won a $500 merchandise award at the 2019 51st Watercolor West annual exhibition. The show is currently on display at [...]

I was pleased to receive the Merchants Award at the Fall 2019 Utah Watercolor Society exhibition held at Sego 3 Gallery in Salt Lake City. The painting was “Modena Crossing.” Also [...]

A group of wonderful painters travelled to Moab Utah, in the heart of Canyonlands, for a plein air workshop with Roland Lee. The workshop was held in connection with the Red Rocks Festival of Art [...]

Roland Lee and both his sons, Jim Lee and Jon Lee will participate in a fun three-man show and sale at the Roland Lee Art Gallery in St George UT October 17-19. Plan to join us for a reception [...]

Zions Bank in St. George Utah hosted one of the classiest and most well-organized art shows we’ve ever participated in. The one-night affair included over 30 artists who each had an 8-foot [...]

I really enjoy meeting new collectors. The Smizers recently moved to the Zion Park area and were looking for the perfect painting for their home. They found it in “Clouds Over the Great [...]

What an awesome week of learning and sharing at Midway Utah. Located in the beautiful Heber Valley overlooked by Mt. Timpanogos, the rendezvous and retreat paired 100 artist participants with [...]

Zions Bank will be hosting a special art event September 19 from 6pm to 9pm at their St. George downtown offices. Works by over 30 artists will be displayed in their facility in a variety of [...]

The St. George Art museum is currently running a retrospective exhibit of the paintings of the late Robert Shepherd  through October 2019. Artist Roland Lee who was greatly influenced by [...]

Thanks to Betsy McChesney, a talented artist in her own right for purchasing two recent paintings from my gallery. “Autumn’s Kiss” a painting of Duck Creek, Utah and [...]

  I was pleased to have my painting “Railroad Summit” accepted into the 51st Watercolor West International Juried Exhibition. The paintings were juried by noted artist Keiko [...]

I felt like a little 6-year old kid at his own birthday party last night July 19, 2019 as hundreds of friends and collectors showed up at the Sears Art Museum at Dixie State University. The [...]

I was pleased to have my work, along with the work of my two sons, Jon and Jim, in the Utah Watercolor Society Small Painting show at Sego 3 Gallery in Salt Lake City, UT. I was honored to [...]

I am happy to be featured in Western Art Collector magazine July 2019 in an article by David Brown called “Where the Past Meets the Present” about Zion National Park and Grand Canyon [...]

Thanks to Darci Hansen of Etched magazine  for the wonderful article in the July 2019 issue called “Right Where I Want to Be” by Lyman Hafen. It spotlights my one-man show at Sears [...]

Thanks to Dixie State University Sears Art Museum for hosting the Roland Lee 40-Year Retrospective exhibit. Our opening reception June 7 was attended by over 100 people who listened to Roland Lee [...]

  We launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund our new book “Discovering Zion” and thanks to the kindness and generosity of our friends we reached our goal in just 12 hours.  Wow, [...]

My original painting “Cliffs of Zion” was presented to donors Dr. Denis and Diane Lyman at a special reception at Dixie State University yesterday. I was present to unveil the [...]

I am grateful that juror Betsy Dillard Stroud chose two of my paintings for the Spring 2019 UWS competition. “Railroad Summit” depicts three railroad men, the engineer, a mechanic, [...]

Thanks to the many collectors who attended the Southern Utah Museum of Art SUMA art auction. My painting “Big Skies and Deserts” raised $1600 in support of the museum. I’m [...]

I was invited to teach a two-day watercolor painting workshop for the Utah Watercolor Society last weekend in Salt Lake City. We had 22 wonderful painters sign up with about 15 more on the [...]

Over the last month or so I’ve done quite a few new watercolor paintings. They will start showing up soon on my website and in the gallery. Come by and take a look.

I enjoy inviting a few good artists into my studio each month for what we call a “Master Class.” It is called that because we explore upper-level techniques for creating solid [...]

A special thanks to collector Randy Peterson who selected my original painting “Glorious Morn” for his art collection. Randy and his wife have purchased two other paintings from me. [...]