Artist Wayne England RIP

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According to reports on Facebook, role-playing and Fantasy artist Wayne England has passed away. Former Games Workshop writer Graeme Davis has also confirmed this news on G+. England's art help set the tone for a number of role-playing games from Warhammer to Dungeons & Dragons, and he also contributed art to Magic The Gathering.

Warhammer tribute blog Realm of Chaos 80s recently published a tribute to England and talked about the sketchbook that he carried with him to conventions.

England is survived by his wife, Victoria

 

[doctorhook]

Damn. This guy's stuff was still appearing in a fair bit of recent D&D material, including 5E's Monster Manual. He was all over 4E as well.

 

[JeffB]

Very Sad.

RIP

 

[BOZ]

Sorry to hear this.

 

[sgt-d]

One of my favorite WotC-era D&D artists.

 

[smiteworks]

What an amazing artist. My gaming shelves are full of his fantastic work. He will be missed.

 

[neobolts]

A gallery of his Magic card art, for those unfamiliar: here

 

[Henry]

I like his work, and I'm sorry to hear he's passed. My condolences to his family...

 

[LostandDamned]

Such a loss to the Fantasy Art community, to think, he would produce such amazing artwork using many different mediums, some which would make art critics bulk, seriously Space Marines in Crayon!

RIP Wayne.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I'm not familiar with his D&D work, but he did have a massive influence on my other big gaming love, Blood Bowl. Sad to hear.