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On The Line: A New Essay
My latest essay, On The Line: The Enduring Relevance of Victorian Art, is now available to read on my website. Beginning with Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June, I consider the continued relevance of...
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On The Line
The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting From Museo de Arte de Ponce Exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California February 1st – May 24th, 2026 The Crocker Art Museum in midtown...
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Under the Same Sun
Some albums are played a few times, then forgotten; others are meant to travel with you throughout your life, celebrating your triumphs and consoling you in dark times. Their music becomes intertwined...
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Line by Line
After a long month spent renovating this site and consolidating an image I have been refining for the past four years, I am at last happy to say I am ready to return to my drawing table. It may not be...
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A New Chapter Begins
The past five years have been an extraordinary period of growth. During that time, the vision I’ve carried for the past four decades finally became a reality: I embraced an aesthetic that has...
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A Time of Changes
Forty years ago, I was standing in the small bedroom I occupied in my parents’ home in Fresno, packing my things and getting ready to move to San Francisco to start classes at the Academy of Art...
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Vision In Progress
Fanny detail Building a vision is a lifetime’s work. That vision begins with an internal revelation; you see something, and it changes your life forever. Over time, often years, and in some cases...
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Drawing The Pre-Raphaelites
I’m honored to share that my work is the subject of a six-page article in the summer 2025 issue of the eminent UK art journal, the PRS Review, published by the Pre-Raphaelite Society. The article...
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Lived Conviction
Benjamin Zephaniah. 2025. Pen and ink, sketchbook. 9″x12″. In a distracted culture, it’s crucial to look slowly. I like faces that demand scrutiny and make you think. If I’m going to invest hours of...
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Drawing The Pre-Raphaelites
In the Studio, May 2025. Photograph by Allyce Castillo ©2025. For more than four decades, my work has been shaped by the Pre-Raphaelites, particularly the art of Edward Burne-Jones and the broader...
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It Finally Happened
Davis. 2025. Pen and ink in sketchbook. 8 1/2″ x 11″. They say never meet your heroes because they might disappoint you—or because meeting them might not be as earth-shattering as you imagine....
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The Evolution of Mystery
Mystery. 2025. Pen and ink on paper. 9″x12″. The creation of a new piece of work unfolds in ways most people never imagine. It’s nonlinear, unpredictable, and refuses to adhere to routine. This isn’t...
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Defiance On Paper
Fanny Eaton (After Fryer Stocks). 2025. Pen and ink on paper. 9″x12″. My work is defiance on paper. I am not here to chase trends or court popularity—I am here to be myself. And being yourself means...
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Beautiful Rebellion
Beautiful Rebellion. 2025. Pen and ink on paper. 9″x12″. A year ago, I was mired in a creativity-crushing stasis that all but strangled my productivity. Today, that paralysis has given way to...
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Back On The Edge
Otis Parsons 1985 Catalog Forty years ago, I stood on the edge of the most significant chapter of my young life—preparing to move to Los Angeles to attend Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of...
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Vision and Beauty: Part 3
A Vision Fulfilled In the summer of 2022, I experienced a fundamental change. Reading The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones finally gave me the clarity and purpose I had been searching for. Inspired...
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Vision and Beauty: Part 2
The Search for Direction In 2015, I found myself at a crossroads. I was frustrated with the direction of my work — or, more accurately, the lack of one. What I was producing fell far below the...
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Vision and Beauty: Part 1
A Vision of Beauty: Discovering The Pre-Raphaelites I had no idea I was stepping onto a forty-year path when I bought my copy of the illustration monograph The Studio at sixteen. That oversized tome...
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Voices Not Forgotten
The world seems crueler in 2019. It’s not really any worse, but it feels like it is. With the advent of the internet and social media, we are all now hyper-aware of all the bad things that happen in...
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Stephen Biko
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the death of anti apartheid activist, Stephen Biko. On August 18, 1977 Biko and a friend were detained at a police road block in Grahamstown, South Africa....
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