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Craig Honeycutt grew up on the country hillsides among the orchards and fields east of Talent, Oregon. Involving over a year of creation, Craig’s “Book of Hours” reflects his upbringing. During many drives through the southern Rogue Valley countryside, he photographed landscapes and people. Back at his studio, he made composite studies, forming a composition -- entirely drawn in pencil-- from the images he had collected. The” Book of Hours” illuminates Ashland through the twelve months of the year depicting its seasonal changes. Craig’s based his drawings on the fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript, “The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry”. In Duke’s Book of Hours, a castle was a highly visible centerpiece in the illustrations. Craig adopted this theme when he chose the Shakespeare Festival as his castle. Each of the twelve months is rooted in Festival imagery.