Ray Bonnell

My blogs

Industry	Arts
Occupation	artist and writer
Location	Fairbanks, Alaska
Introduction	I am a free-lance artist specializing in pen and ink drawings, mainly of old equipment, historic structures, and other culturally significant sites. My home is in Fairbanks, the Golden Heart of Alaska. For 30 years I have been tramping the roads and trails of Alaska, primarily in Eastern Interior and Southcentral Alaska, documenting mining camps, homesteads, cemeteries and other sites before time, vandals and development erase them from the landscape. Since 2010 I have also been writing a column in my local newspaper, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, about historic sites around Alaska. That column, “Sketches of Alaska,” won the Alaska Historical Society’s Contributions to Alaska History award in 2011. On the pages of my blog you will find images of my art, writings on an artist's life in Fairbanks, and many of my columns. I hope you enjoy my ramblings.