Eric Leland
I am an illustrator and a letterpress printmaker located in Baltimore, Maryland, although the path that has led me here has had a few twists and turns. After graduating from the College of Design at North Carolina State University, I started off my career as an architect. By the time I achieved licensure, though, I had realized that I was happiest when my work involved pencil and paintbrush. I started afresh by undertaking the postgraduate illustration program at Falmouth University, in Cornwall, England. The course there emphasized authorial practice - in a nutshell, taking responsibility for your own career - and I spent a year learning to generate projects from Cornwall’s rich historic industrial landscape. In 2009, I returned to Baltimore. In 2012, I jumped at the opportunity to purchase a unique but neglected concrete house from 1905, which offered room for a studio, a garage for my printing presses, and a garden for inspiration, too! Since then, I have been busy with select commissioned projects, loads of my own work and many other adventures as well.

https://www.lelandmanufactory.com