About Billy

For as long as I can remember I have loved to draw and paint. Constantly drawing the ire of my elementary and high school teachers, preferring to sketch in my notebooks rather than pay attention in class. Maybe my teachers would have been happier with me if they knew I’d eventually work as a graphic designer, own a sign shop, and become an artist.

After high school I attended the Art Institute of Houston, learning the trade of visual communications and graphic design. There were classes in fine art, but the curriculum was focused mainly toward commercial art.

 

A few years as a commercial graphic designer, laying out catalogs, advertisements and annual reports I realized that was not at all what I wanted to do and left the field entirely. Pursuing other career paths in other fields entirely.  Eventually I built a sign and graphic design business. Owning a busy sign shop does not leave a lot of time for art.

Painting and drawing fell by the wayside as life and family took over for many years. Every couple of years I would do a painting here and there, hang it on the wall and not do anything else for a while.

One day in 2023, I was looking at one of these wall hangers. It was the latest one I had done. The date was 2003...  It had been 20 years since I picked up a paint brush. Twenty years since I had done an activity that I truly loved to do. This had to change.

I gathered my materials and determined to start again. I was going to paint. Not the same way I had painted before. I wanted to do something different, colorful, more expressive.

Hopefully, I will continue this path until I accomplish this goal.