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When I was little, I wanted to draw like my mother, who was an artist. I did landscapes in pencil and I’ve kept them in an old portfolio. After age twelve, I didn’t draw very much until I took an art class as a senior in high school. After changing my college major several times, I settled on Studio Art. In basic college drawing classes we had to fill sketchbooks with pencil or ink drawings and that's when I fell in love with pen & ink. As a kid, I used to love to make up aerial views of farms with roads that vanished back into the mountains. I was very interested in perspective. All of my trees were leafless--I was more interested in the structure of the tree or maybe it was because leafy trees are difficult to draw. My mother was a great influence on all of us. Whenever we'd bring home a project that we had to do for school, we'd clear everything off the kitchen table and get down to business. It was great to have her help on a map, a poster, a diagram, or a drawing. She always wanted us to take a very ambitious approach. She might as well have been saying to us: "Okay. Now. Let's see. How would daVinci approach this?" My mother, Joan Lavigueur Geyer, now 82, has exhibited at the Smithsonian and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Apparently I come from a line of French Canadian artists. My mother's father, Roch Oliver Joseph Charles DeLage deLavigueur, born in 1885 in Montreal, was a landscape artist and architectural draftsman. He did beautiful pencil landscapes. Roch's father designed wallpaper for a living. I am the illustrator of Stephen King’s Rose Madder and The Green Mile. In addition to my work in adult horror novels, I am now illustrating two middle-grade series for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: The Inquisitor’s Apprentice and Shakespeare’s Grave. The Inquisitor’s Apprentice has received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly. Book Page says: “Mark Edward Geyer’s illustrations are beautiful and add even more depth to the story.” I got my college degree in Studio Art from Florida State University in 1979. I spent many years as an architectural renderer while trying to break into the publishing market. My clients include Advertising Age, Chicago Tribune, Hallmark Cards, Doubleday, Scribner, Viking Penguin, Dutton Signet, Harcourt Children’s Books, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Subterranean Press, and PS Publishing. I am married and live in Atlanta.
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