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ALAN M
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I was born in Nashville, Tennessee, then lived in Arlington, Virginia, New York, New York, and returned to Nashville to start school.
When I was 15 years old, I moved to San Francisco to find an education with more art training, went to high school at Symbas Experimental High School in the warehouse commune, Project One. When I graduated, I went to the San Francisco Art Institute for four years and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1979.
I returned to Nashville and worked for 2 years as exhibitions preparator for The Nashville Artists Guild Galleries.
I met my wife, Melody, and we were married in 1981.
I worked for about a year at a restaurant as a busboy and waiter, then worked for four years for Metro Parks at Fort Nashborough, a replica of the first settlement of Nashville. While there, I learned to demonstrate numerous skills of the 1780s, the time period of the settlement.
In 1985 I became a freelance illustrator and have produced work ranging in subject from fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery for publishers of fiction, to cellular and molecular biology for college text books. I have produced work for young adults and provided the artwork for two children's books. I have illustrated the writing of such authors as Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Joe R. Lansdale, Stephen King, George Orwell, Manly Wade Wellman, Greg Bear, Spider Robinson, and Lewis Shiner, as well as my own.
A major influence for my art comes from the Surrealists, particularly Max Ernst. I am fascinated with the use of what I call "controlled accidents" and the possibility of "finding" images within the paint. I love to collaborate and have worked with many others in both literary and visual art.
My awards in the illustration field include, the World Fantasy Award four Chesley Awards, the Deathrealm Award and the first International Horror Guild Critic's Award for Best Artist.
There are three anthologies, The Imagination Fully Dilated series, of stories based on my artwork by such authors as Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, Charles De Lint, Ramsey Campbell, Allen Steele, Jeff VanderMeer and Poppy Z. Brite.
I have sold short fiction to the anthologies, More Phobias, The Book of Dead Things, Dead on Demand, Darkside, and Portents, and to the magazines Midnight Hour and The Silver Web. Siren Promised, my Bram Stoker Award-nominated novel, written with Jeremy Robert Johnson, was released in 2005. My two book series with Stephen C. Merritt and Lorelei Shannon, THE BLOOD OF FATHER TIME, BOOKS 1 & 2, a dark time-travel fantasy, was released by Five Star Books in 2007. D.D. Murphry, Secret Policeman, my novel with Beth Massie will be released late 2009 by Raw Dog Screaming Press
My publishing company, IFD Publishing, has released six books, the most recent of which is a full color book of my artwork, The Paint in My Blood, available on my web site (www.alanmclark.com).
My wife, Melody, and I reside in Eugene Oregon.
AMY COLORIZED
CROWLEY ROMANCE
DARK TOWER
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