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imagerys@tampabay.rr.com
http://www.stanleymorrison.com
A self-taught fantasy artist, Stanley W. Morrison has been drawing anything he could imagine since childhood. He worked only in pencil until 1981 when he moved to Tampa and became inspired to paint in oils after viewing the works of artists such as Boris and Frazetta. At the age of 20 in 1982, Stanley accepted a position at an art manufacturer that wholesaled to the furniture industry. After promotion to art director, he designed and produced art for many furniture companies such as Rooms-to-Go, Haverty’s, Matter Brothers, and Thomasville. During this time, Stanley was also promoting his privately produced artwork, depicting creatures of the realm of the imagination, at local art shows while freelancing line-art to the local yellow pages.
In 1990, Stanley met an author who commissioned him to create cover and inside illustrations for a science fiction/fantasy novel and a “How to” book. That author also introduced him to the world of science fiction conventions when he encouraged him to show his work at Necronomicon in 1993.
Stanley took his art in a new direction in 1995 when he became enthralled with the scratchboard technique as a medium which captures and enhances the texture of fantasy creatures. Nominations for Chesley Awards for scratchboard monochrome pieces followed in 1997, 1999, and 2000. Stanley has won numerous awards for scratchboard pieces and paintings at Dragoncon, Worldcon, Lunacon, Boskone, Arisia, Aggiecon, and OASIS, where his “Polar Princess” won Best of Show in 2001. His scratchboard “Asian Wonders” has been purchased and put on display in the Dragon Dreams Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Stanley’s talented use of diverse mediums such as scratchboard, oils, acrylics, pastels, and pencil allow for versatile expression of his fertile imagination.
Stanley’s latest projects include interior illustrations for an issue of Dragonlance “Age of Mortals”. Two covers for Pale Writer Publishing “ Eyes in the dark and Green Meadows Grey Death “
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