Artist Profile

Primary Style: Realism

Credentials: Master of Fine Arts Degree

Career Level: Full Time, Career Artist

Experience: Mature Artist

Juried Artist: Yes

Represented by Galleries: Yes

wbarronart.comWilliam Barron

Member Since October 3rd, 2008

Landscape Painter Artist Statement
Foremost I love to paint and have been doing so since I was fifteen. Painting helps me ground my experiences. I look for the unusual in the landscape wherever I am. Ultimately, in the studio, I draw from memory those things that defined a place for me and I try to create a painting that says something about the experience and the place. Sometimes a painting is totally invented from a variety of images, from memory and from photos. But always the goal is to create an image that is dynamic and has a presence of its own.

Biography
William Barron received a B.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art and an M.F.A. from Rutgers University, where he was a graduate teaching assistant.
For 25 years, he taught art at Stephens College in Missouri, Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Kishwaukee College in Malta, Illinois and St. Xavier University and Columbia College in Chicago.

Bill’s work is represented in both corporate and private collections. It has been exhibited in Chicago at the Struve Gallery, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Illinois State Fair, the Wichita Art Center and the Springfield Art Museum in Illinois. In Massachusetts, he showed his work at Thayer Academy Gallery in Braintree, the Batelle-Harding Gallery in Greenfield, and for several years he ran his own gallery, the Barron Gallery, on Cape Cod.

Bill has completed large commissions at the Bank of America in Chicago and for Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, as well as other private commissions. He has won awards in painting from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Union League Club of Chicago, the U.S. State Department Arts in Embassies program, and the Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation.

Featured Art Work

In Field These are the fields of home. Walking down that road just after a rain you can smell the grasses and the wildflowers. In the distance across the corn field are two old farm buildings from another era, falling back into nature. What's around the bend on your walk? You are alone and open to new discoveries.