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Gallery/Portfolios » Organ-Kean
PMB 177
1916 Pike Place #12
Seattle, Washington 98101
Tel: 206-938-2452
margaret@organ-kean.com
http://www.organ-kean.com
When I was fifteen years old, a family friend sent my mother a postcard
with a Kay Nielsen illustration from East of the Sun, West of the Moon
on it. It was love at first sight. I had always drawn and painted -
usually horses - but now my most important goal was to evoke a sense of
magic on paper. A year later, I won a major prize in a national
poster contest, but even then, I still planned on becoming a lawyer.
Encouraged by my high school art teacher, I began to sell my watercolor
paintings and drawings at local art fairs, and it was then that I began
to seriously consider art as a career.
I went to three universities (Boston University, Central Washington
University, and the University of Washington) and three majors before
settling down to get a B.A. in art history in the regulation four
years. It helped that all my majors had been related to art. After
college, I supported myself as a file clerk and administrative
assistant at a law firm, and then as a systems operator at an
insurance company. During this time, I started going to science
fiction conventions and showing in the conventions' art shows. This
led to jobs working for magazines such as Marion Zimmer Bradley's
Fantasy Magazine and Cricket , and for gaming companies such as Iron
Crown Enterprises and Wizards of the Coast. My most recent project was
illustrating a childrens' book, Petronella , by Jay Williams, for Moon
Mountain Publishing.
Currently, I work in watercolor or pen-and-ink. I also work as a
graphic designer, specializing in book cover design.
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