Bill Wells, Mena

For Bill Wells the road to artistic excellence has been a long road. He is able to take even the most mundane of subjects and make them exciting. His love for natural things comes through in all his paintings of birds, wildflowers and animals. He also loves painting people when they are “caught in the act of being themselves.” Bill likes to call his work interpretive realism, or design realism. The world depicted in his paintings seems a little more perfect than the one viewed on the evening news which stems from his childhood years spent living on a farm in western Arkansas and his small town roots. He works in both oil and watercolors and strives for freshness and luminosity in all his work. Bill's paintings are in many private collections across the country and he teaches watercolor and pencil drawings part time at Rich Mountain Community College in Mena, Arkansas. He is available for commission.