Art Painting MATT Matthew D WILSON 22x18 RPG Marvel Magic The Gathering
Item History & Price
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Purchased in an estate featuring fantasy artwork. Year unknown. Mixed media, perhaps pen, oil and watercolor. Frame is 22" x 18". Possibly a very early work, or a commission. EXTREMELY rare to find, we were unable to locate another historical sale of Matt Wilson's original artwork - even signatures are hard to come by, as he doesn't sign via mail, only at select conventions. He is a legend in several fantasy fields!"Matthew D. Wilson has worked in comics and the tabletop game industry ...since 1993, as a writer, concept artist, illustrator, art director and game designer. He has worked for several game companies as an art director and world builder, including Hasbro's Wizard of the Coast on such brands as Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. Technically, his first illustration for Magic: The Gathering was the oversized Vanguard card for Maraxus, but the first real card set he did work for was Tempest. He was actually hired as the art director, and in doing so, was allowed and expected to contribute artwork to the set. Unfortunately, art direction wasn’t something Matt enjoyed. He wanted to do more art and less management, so he took an offer with FASA Corporation to be a staff illustrator. Once things at that company started to look bad, Matt was given another opportunity to work for Wizards—this time, as the lead concept illustrator. Matt founded his tabletop game company, Privateer Press, Inc., in 2000 as an avenue to tell stories and create expressions of his own original property concepts. Since that time, Matt has created multiple worlds, designed several games and produced almost a decade’s worth of successful products, including the award winning WARMACHINE and HORDES miniatures games, the Iron Kingdoms RPG setting, and the latest Collectible Miniatures Game sensation, Monsterpocalypse. Matt has gathered six of the game industry’s esteemed Origin awards and numerous other accolades for the products produced by Privateer Press. Today, he is Privateer’s owner and Chief Creative Officer, overseeing the creative development of every aspect of the company, from game development to miniatures design to marketing."
