Bill Turner

I started as a photographer and still produce photographs – See my “Photographs” page. I had a basic course in photography in my last year of college. Ever since that class, my first experience in visual arts, I’ve had a mild compulsion to create visual images that strike a chord in me.”Why roads?” I’m often asked.When I first began showing these paintings, my first response was a little feeling of shock — “Roads? All my paintings have roads?” (Even occasionally when I do a painting that doesn’t have a road, it still has that atmospheric quality and looks into the distance.) It’s not a scheme or plan — that is, to paint paintings with roads. It’s just that roads are a marvelous vehicle for taking one’s imagination into a painting, especially one that evokes the sort of emotional qualities that I like for these paintings to have. What are these emotional qualities? If I’m successful, the viewer should know……