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William Vaughn Willis has spent a lifetime developing his talents in Arts and Architecture. His academic education includes Fine Arts Graduate Studies and a Bachelor of Architecture Degree at Arizona State University in 1964. In 1968, he graduated with a Degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts, Awarded with Honor from Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California.

An accomplished Architect, Landscape Architect, Interior Designer and a Professional Artist, he specializes in the medium of transparent watercolour. His works emphasize geometric shapes, unity of composition and emotional responses to colour in the subject matter.  Mr. Willis’ education, training, workshops, extensive traveling and life experiences have resulted in several commissioned watercolour paintings and numerous awards, including the Bronze Award for the prestigious First Arizona Watercolour Biennial at the Phoenix Art Museum in 1968. Current works include a watercolour series of the Southwest, a series of European Historical Buildings and Sporting Events.

Artist Statement

The subject matter in time and space becomes the first step in my process of creating the concept for my transparent watercolour paintings. The weather condition, quality of light and season modify the colour, texture and observed shape in the composition of the painting.

The images are manipulated to give the illusion of incident space through proportion, form, media, placement and hue. This illusory imagery creates a mythical distance between me and the observer.

I want to enable an intuitive feeling of sensitivity, through layers of interpretation, both visually and symbolically, in dynamic, coherent composition, which emphasizes that the urban or rural VISUAL IMPRESSION will be a continual emotional experience to the patron.

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