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WILLIAM HAWKINS FINE ART PAINTER 1962-

 

William Hawkins'  work has been collected and sold in galleries around the world. Much of the pre-internet work was sporting art themed and featured carved and painted furniture and sculpture as well as oil paintings. He has been represented by galleries in Florida, California, Mexico, Montana, Arizona and Pennsylvania.

"There are a number of artists who have inspired me but the most influential have all passed on. Edgar Payne, Maxfield Parrish, Joaquin Sorrolla and Winslow Homer to name a few. I started painting in oils in the mid nineties after a lifetime of counting duck feathers and making highly rendered and detailed watercolor paintings and drawings. Now, well into my 5th decade of life I paint with an alacrity and prolificacy rivaled only by the maquiladoras humming away just an hour south of the studio on the border in Mexico. Don't get me wrong, there is no mass production going on here. I just love to paint and that's what I do just about every day. Some wonderful men who are great painters in their own right have also taken time to teach and injectify me with fantastical and glowing strains of artistical inspiration like Taylor Lynde, Mike Mahoney and Gabor Svagrik. Thanks to them and all the folks in cyber-world who have helped to perpetuate the continuation and promulgation of my art and all the happy walls it's hanging on."

Peace to you

Notable Collectors include The Grand Canyon Assosiation / Kolb Studio Museum, Senator & Mrs. John Edwards, Mr & Mrs. Barry Cohen, The Santa Barbara Chamber Music Assosiation.

Awards: First and second place premiums and peoples choice award Montana Art Fair 1995. Voted Best landscapes large format by eBay artists for three consecutive years