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About Me

My name is Billy Mabrey and I am an Artist and Photographer located in Grapevine, Texas. I am an art instructor at Monart School of Art, helping children, Teens, and Adults to aquire skills in drawing and painting. A brief collection of my drawings and paintings can be seen here.

I am skilled in many forms of art, however I primarily use photography as my medium of choice. In particular, I print with an old process called Gum Bichromate Printing. To learn more about Gum Bichromate see my tutorials on gum printing.

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News - June 23, 2009

For those of you who often visit my site, perhaps in search of some new prints, I do apologize. In fact its been nearly 6 monhts since Ive printed anything at all. Aside from a rather large technical problem (an issue im glad to say is solved at last), addmitedly I've been rather unmotivated when it comes to making prints.

I've been blaming this lack of motivation on being too busy with other things, you know, working, spending all my free time with people I love, that sort of thing. However its finally dawned on me tonight that for a long time I have been printing images in an attempt to litterally Make ART. This used to fill me with excitment to make an "artistic image". For the most part I have been photographing landscapes or similar scenes in an attempt to reveal some hidden nature of the obvious. That kind of thing just doesn't keep me afloat anymore, and I've been drowning.

Recently I've found that my photographs have changed by and large. They are mostly images of people in my life, and very rarely do I shoot anything else that's supposed to be "ART" worthy anymore. It is in this new realm, I find I have a passion for my photography still. Not sure what to do with these images, I've been dumping them into facebook, but I feel that pattern must soon change.

In light of all this, I believe there will be some interesting work coming from me soon. Images of people in my life interacting, candid, and balanced. Perhaps they will be less universal to an audience such as you, the visitors to this site, but where did it ever say artists should make art for the audience. I will once again be printing for myself. Hopefully these upcoming prints will translate on some lever to you, even if their meaning to me does not.

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