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Born in 1952 in British Columbia, Bill spent much of his youth exploring the mountains where he lived.  He was a cowboy, participated  in the rodeo and guided hunters all his life.  Bill started painting part-time in 1981 while living in Cody, WY and has painted full time since moving to Alaska in 1997.  He has studied Edgar Payne, Carl Rungius, Jim Reynolds, and certain California and Russian painters.  He is a multi-instrumentalist, who plays the banjo, dobro,  and guitar and who is involved in the Alaska Bluegrass scene.   An avid telemark skiier,  his spare moments are taken up by splitting firewood and catching fish.

"I believe that you must paint what moves you emotionally as an artist, for me that is usually the landscape at this moment in my life, I seem to be a northern painter.  I react to salient features in remote locations.  Places where most people would never see, and even if they were there, they might not see it.  Many people are not aware of their surroundings.  It's our job, as artists, to show them what they may be missing.  We must paint a scene and make it more beautiful that it really is.  A fine painting in your home is like looking out a window, maybe an escape, it should transport you some where.  Fine art should create some kind of an emotion for  example, a sense of place, maybe a memory of some kind of  having been there,, or wanting to be there, and it should be uplifting.  My job as a painter is to try and involve the viewer, not to tell the whole story, and let their imagination fill in the gaps.  I hope I've accomplished this."

  2007  Paint The Parks Top 200
  2007  Oil Painters of America - National Juried Show, Fredericksburg, TX
  2007  Salon International - Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX 
  2006 Best and Brightest Show, Scottsdale, AZ  
  2006  Top 30 - Arts for Alaska Parks  
  Arts for the Parks 2004  "Award of Excellence"  Top 200   
  Artist Magazine 2004
  Oil Painters of America Western Regional Portland, Oregon 2004
  Range Magazine Fall 2003
  Artist Magazine 2003
  Salon International 2003
  Arts for the Parks  2003
  Trinidad National Art Exhibition
  Artistic Merit  2003

Studied With :

Carolyn Anderson - Scottsdale Artist School
Loren Entz
Bob Barlow

OPA Member since 2003

- Paintings in Num-Ti-Jah Lodge, Bow Lake, Alberta
- Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Banff, Alberta