About Bill Davis
Davis

Having been raised in New Hampshire on a forty acre farm during the mid-forties and fifties, Bill had a lot of open space to roam the fields, adjacent hills and woodlands to develop a close relationship with the natural world.  In those days before television, at the age of nine, Bill could frequently be found at the kitchen table, pencil in hand, sketching from memory everything from landscapes to logging trucks.  After high school  Bill attended a technical institute to learn architectural and mechanical design and drafting.  He then worked as a draftsman for a local manufacturing firm.  Rather than being "drafted" himself, he volunteered into the Army, signed on to the Corps of Engineers, trained to be a cartographic draftsman and served his 1-1/2 year overseas tour in Japan.  Bill bought a good camera while in Japan and found that country to be a photographer's paradise.

         After many years employed in industry, Bill took the leap and became a self-employed contract draftsman.  For the next sixteen years Bill accepted the constant, interesting challenge of a new, wide variety of projects.  They included everything from construction drawings for a satellite tracking station to illustrating and producing machinery operators manuals.  Other projects included 3D, four color illustrations for trade magazine covers, and single page advertisements, commissioned Pen and Ink renderings of residences, office and industrial buildings.

        Now semi-retired, Bill and his wife Betsy enjoy traveling.  They have been on tutored, plein air artist tours in Spain, Morocco and Portugal.  With cameras and sketch pads always at the ready, they have vacationed in Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Switzerland to name but a few.

        Present and future goals for Bill include making time to create new artwork & hone his skills; to enthusiastically accept commissioned artwork; to develop and maintain his attractive website; observe, appreciate the work of other artists and just take pleasure in the magnificent world of Fine Art.