Information on the Artist

My name is Mark Stanley-Bey, but I prefer to be called Stan-Bey. I continue my art while I am currently incarcerated. My mantra is, “I love all things art.”
I use a variety of skills and techniques in my work with watercolor, color pencil, lead pencil, micron pens, and dipping ink for his stippling techniques, a technique that is popular with his fans and followers.

I agree with a fellow artist who said in part, “we artists are indestructible. Even in prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be am almighty in my own world of art.

I’ve just finished a children’s book illustration of twenty-three pages including the cover art. It is a collaboration of my illustrations with a children’s story written by a law student teamed up with a law student titled “Visiting Mom” based on a young girl who visits her mom in prison for the first time and finds it very stressful and intimidating – as any child would.

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My name is Mark Stanley-Bey, but I prefer to be called Stan-Bey. I continue my art while I am currently incarcerated. My mantra is, “I love all things art.” I use a variety of skills and techniques in my work with watercolor, color pencil, lead pencil, micron pens, and dipping ink for his stippling techniques, a technique that is popular with his fans and followers. I agree with a fellow artist who said in part, “we artists are indestructible. Even in prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be am almighty in my own world of art. I’ve just finished a children’s book illustration of twenty-three pages including the cover art. It is a collaboration of my illustrations with a children’s story written by a law student teamed up with a law student titled “Visiting Mom” based on a young girl who visits her mom in prison for the first time and finds it very stressful and intimidating – as any child would.