Jamie Chase

Jamie Chase is an award-winning painter and illustrator who has navigated the worlds of fine art galleries and pop-art publications simultaneously. Each pursuit has informed and affected the other throughout his decades as a professional artist.

Profoundly influenced by the ‘Silver Age’ of comics, he grew up enjoying and collecting action/adventure and horror publications. His early affection for such series as Turok, Son of Stone, Creepy Magazine and Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant was later enhanced by careful study of classic illustrators like N.C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Goya and Tenniel. The painterly work of Jeff Jones and Frank Frazetta influences him to this day, along with more graphic styles developed by Alex Toth, Dave McKean, George Pratt and Bill Sienkiewicz.

Jamie loves a good adventure story, and cites Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the canon of Conan, George R.R. Martin and contemporary science fiction as favorites.

Brushy abstraction and a sophisticated palette, which have garnered nationwide representation and collectors for Jamie Chase’s fine art, shape his approach to narrative illustration as well. In a world where so much new art is strictly digital, it sets his stories apart.

He attended Academy of Art College and the San Francisco Art Institute and has also been a highly regarded muralist and portrait artist. Born in California, he has lived in New Mexico since 1980. He is a partner at City of Mud arts collective, where in 2017 he curated the wildly popular ‘Illustrated!’ show of distinguished artists from across the USA.