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ROLAND LEE
Watercolor Artist
AWARDS:
Springville 101st annual Spring Salon – Springville Art Museum April – July 5, 2025 “Rugged Grandeur.”
Plein Air Painters of Utah – Eccles Art Museum May 2025
Utah Watercolor Society – May 2025 – “At Peace in Zion“
Dixie Watercolor Society Spring Show – April 2025 “The Nordic”
Sears Invitational Feb. 2025 – “The Old Home Place” sold
Juror Southern Utah Art Guild Red Cliff Gallery Art Show “Bountiful Harvest”, Oct. 11 – Nov. 14.
First Place Utah Watercolor Society – Ramble Gallery UWS Fall Show October 2024 – First Place “Kolob Canyons Morn“
Plein Air Utah – October 2024 Midway, UT
Zions Bank Invitational – October 2024
American Watercolor Society – July 6 through August 20, 2024. Online Associates exhibit “Resting Peacefully.”
Watercolor West 56th International – July 6 through Aug 3, 2024 – Coastline College CA “Hope of Dawn“
Utah Watercolor Society. April-May 2024 “Through Canyons Like These” Visual Art Institute – Honorable Mention.
Best of Show Dixie Watercolor Society Splash of Color Spring Show – March 9 – May 31 2024 St. George Art Museum
Sears Invitational – Feb 17 to March 31, 2024 – Second place Award “Through Canyons Like This” Utah Tech University Sears Art Museum
Gallery 35 – Featured Artist – November 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024
Mighty Five – Zion National Park – Dec 1, 2023 to January 12, 2024 Sears Art Museum, Utah Tech University
Plein Air Salon May 2023 – Winner “Best Western Painting” category “Patiently Waiting” and Honorable Mention “Alone Again.”
PleinAir Salon May 2023 – Four Roland Lee paintings in Top 100 out of 697 entries. “Alone Again,” “Patiently Waiting,” “Soft and Quiet,” and “Winter Wood.”
The Sears Legacy – Art show featuring purchase Award winners of past Sears Museum Invitationals. June 16 – August 25, 2023 Utah Tech University
Highway 89 Show Plein Air Painters of Utah Brushworks Gallery June 15-July 1, Thunderbird Gallery July 14-Aug 11, Springville Art Museum Nov 15-March 2024.
American Watercolor Society – June 7 to August 20, 2023 Associate Members Competition – “At the Feet of Angels“
Plein Air Salon Top 100– January 2023 – “Desert Cowboy”
Sears Invitational – Feb 18 – Apr 2, 2023 – Utah Tech University – “In the Narrows,” and “Back Canyon Climb“
Arts to Zion – Jan 12 – Jan 16, 2023 – Gallery Walk from St. George to Springdale, UT
Stories of the Desert – Nov 2 through Dec 28, 2022 – Center for the Arts at Kayenta – “Hope’s Glorious Light.” People’s Choice Award
Arts and the Park/Light on the Reef – October 2022 – Capitol Reef, Entrada Institute, UWS 1st place “The Arch Wall“, 2nd Place Quick Draw
American Watercolor Society – Associate members juried online Exhibit – “Party Line” June 7 – August 20, 2022
98th Annual Spring Salon of the Springville Museum of Art – April 27 to July 2, 2022. “Colorful Solitude“
About Roland Lee
“Art is something I need to do, not want to do. Earning a living from creating art is a wonderful blessing, and I thank the Lord each day for being able to live in a place I love, with people I care about, doing what means so much to me. No one could ask for more."
Roland’s paintings have been featured in “American Watercolor Weekly”, “Plein Air Magazine,” “Western Art Collector Magazine”, “Southwest Art”, “The Artist’s Magazine,” “Western Art and Architecture Magazine”, and “Art West” magazine. His paintings have appeared on the cover the LDS “Ensign” magazine. 1979 Roland has concentrated on the medium of transparent watercolor using no white, black, or opaque paints. A graduate of Brigham Young University, he has exhibited and won awards in over 100 invitational juried shows including The National Watercolor Society, Watercolor West, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America,The Utah Watercolor Society, and Arts for the Parks Top 100. In 2014 he was awarded the Governor’s Mansion Medal from Utah Governor Gary Herbert for his contributions to the Arts in Utah.
Roland’s original paintings can be found in over 2000 public and private collections throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. His paintings are in the permanent collections of Dixie State University, Springville Museum of Art, St. George Art Museum, Southern Utah Museum of Art and several National Parks.
