BILL SLOAN

 Bill was born with two passions.  Travel and Art.  He has spent his entire life experiencing the beauty that exists around the world and trying to reflect it through his art.  A gypsy nature took Bill to exotic locales from the South Pacific to the middle east to Europe and Africa.  He continues that pursuit even now.

 His pieces are owned by private individuals and corporations in New York, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Aspen and around the world. Corporations like   Inflight Duty Free Shops in New York and The MacLeod Partnerships in Los Angeles have commissioned multiple large works.  His works have been exhibited at the Aspen Museum of Fine Art and the Norton Museum in Palm Beach.

In 1990 Bill left the business world and began focusing solely on his art. He moved to Palm Beach where he established a studio and exhibited in various galleries on Worth Ave., in South Beach and had shows at various locales around South Florida. 

 His style of work emphasizes freedom of hand. Mostly based on recognizable objects.   He combines images from various sources including photographs he has taken.  Bill's work was influenced by his cousin, Joan Mitchell, the foremost female Abstract Expressionist. He enjoys the imperfect and semi-accidental effects caused by loosely laying down the image in two colors without use of any mechanical aids. As most artists, much of his work reflects some part of his own path through this time and place. He loves light and color. He also has grown to love painting large. Many of his canvases are 6 feet or larger.

In 1998, Bill also began working with computers and digital photography resulting in many of the montages shown in Gallery 5.

Bill returned to Santa Monica, California in 1998, where combined his art with his interest in film, working for several years on a parallel course in two disciplines. 

In 2003, Bill relocated to Las Vegas, where he now maintains a home, working in various aspects of the real estate business, while continuing to pursue both painting and digital photographic art.

Bill recently opened a Sober Living Facility for men in Las Vegas, called "Our House," which provides transitional living for 13 men, recovering from addiction problems. 1/2 of all profits from Bill's work go toward that facility.

Bill has added Motorcycles and Flying to his list of joys in 2006.

For some interesting background pictures of Bill and his travel's including his Bungee Jump at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, click here!