Roger Dean, Floating Islands, Acrylic on Linen, 48 x 72 When he begins shaping a new painting, Dean makes dozens of little thumbnails in his black Moleskine notebooks, developing ideas, redrawing and ...

Indeed, the signature floating islands and stone arches of Dean’s artistic work is evident in the film, but Dean wouldn’t elaborate any further, hinting that some legal action might in the works.

Did the floating mountains and otherworldly landscapes in James Cameron’s Avatar remind you of artist Roger Dean ’s fantastical paintings? Dean certainly thinks there’s more than a passing ...

If Roger Dean had given into his art school and stuck to four-legged chairs and box-like housing, perhaps he would have received the institutional tick of approval.

One of the most distinctive artists to create album covers during the '70s and beyond, British illustrator and designer Roger Dean recently spoke to CBS SF about several projects he's currently ...

English album cover art legend, Roger Dean, famed for his work for bands such as Yes and Asia, has filed a complaint against James Cameron and 20th Century Fox on Thursday seeking more than $50 ...

Have you ever looked at a Roger Dean painting and just dreamed? Imagine what the view would be like from atop one of those impossible floating islands, or how it would feel to walk across a stone ...

Hollywood director James Cameron is being sued by British artist Roger Dean for $50m (£33m) over claims he copied ideas for the hit film Avatar.

The judge rejected the idea that the "Hallelujah Mountains" in "Avatar" were substantially similar to Dean's artwork depicting floating islands. "The works are indisputably similar insofar as they ...

Mr Dean, who graduated from the Royal College of Art, in London, in 1968 said that, in particular, his paintings of floating islands and huge graceful arches in the sky, painted over the course of ...

English album cover art legend, Roger Dean, famed for his work for bands such as Yes and Asia, has filed a complaint against James Cameron and 20th Century Fox on Thursday seeking more than $50 ...