WILLIAM WRAY After traveling around the world most of his childhood as an Army brat until his family settled for good in the Costa Mesa / Newport Beach area, Bill Wray began working in the animation business as a teen-ager in the Seventies. Being mostly self-taught and shunning California’s conceptual oriented art schools, he eventually enrolled in The Art Students League in the eighties located in New York to reinforce his spotty art foundation. After deciding the fine art world was too conceptual for the kind of representational work he wanted to do, he went into commercial art. Bill went on to work in writing and drawing comic books, animation and illustration. He is well known for his painting style on the Ren and Stimpy Show, his monthly strip in Mad Magazine and his collaborations with Mike Mignola on Hellboy Jr. Bill is currently concentrating hard on fine art oil painting centering in on urban landscape work. For the last two years Bill has been a member of LPAPA and the California art club and has taking workshops for Ray Roberts, Carolyn Anderson, Matt Smith, and George Strickland. He is currently studying on an ongoing basis with Jove Wang, Eric Merrill and Frank Serrano. He’s currently showing with Segil Fine Art, The Vault Gallery of Fine Art and H. J Higgins. Bill resides in Sierra Madre, California with his significant other Sharon and his linguist-gifted parrot Mooky. He believes his biggest contribution to society is not having any children so he can do as many paintings as possible before he’s dead. |
