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A
warm and friendly outdoorsman with a flair for humor and satire, Worrell
is energized by the elements in life that surround him. He
maintains two full-time studios, one in Santa Fe and one in Texas.
His studio on the banks of the Llano river in Art, Texas is a synthesis
of New Mexico, Texas, and designs inspired by his life-long passion for
archeology.
He
is presently writing a book about his years of educational, business,
emotional, and spiritual dealings in the fascinating world of fine art
and is continuing such writings as appear in his book Voices From The
Caves - The Shamans Speak.
"People ask me, 'What do these ancient paintings mean?' I don't know.
What does a Helen Frankenthaler mean? What do R.C. Gormans and Doug
Wests and Fritz Scholders and Mimbres' pots mean? Why do we consider
ourselves so different from past peoples? Maybe they, too, painted for
the same reasons that we do. They can't come forward, and we can't
back up so we can never really know. What beauty lies within this
mystery!
"I
have always had an involvement with the Land. I came from the Land, must
return to the Land. There is an inescapable obligation to the
Land, an unavoidable, unexplainable co-existence with it. I have had a
life long love affair with the Land which has compelled me to draw it,
paint it, sculpt it, to reshape its substances into vessels and
microcosmic portraits of the land itself, and either due to convention,
a lack for a better word, or wistfulness of some sort, I label this
minute rearrangement of the Land 'Art'."
Bill
Worrell's art career spans more than thirty years. He holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology with a minor in English from Texas
Tech University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing
with a minor in sculpture from the University of North Texas.
During
eighteen years of college and university teaching he held a doctoral
fellowship at the University of North Texas, was Associate Professor of
Art at Odessa College, and was Professor of Art at Houston Baptist
University. He taught classes in sculpture, ceramics, art
appreciation, jewelry, painting, and drawing.
At his home
and studio on the banks of the Llano River in the Texas Hill Country,
Worrell now enjoys a successful career as sculptor and painter.
Executed in various sculptural, paint, and print media, his works are
copyrighted interpretations of the ancient pictographs found in
abundance along the confluence of the Lower Pecos River with the Middle
Rio Grande, on what is now the border of Texas and Mexico.
Worrell's
work can be found in fine art galleries and collections across the
United States, as well as in private and corporate collections
worldwide. He has been a featured artist in more than one hundred
one-man shows and exhibitions and in numerous two-man and group
exhibitions. His seventeen-foot, three-inch monumental bronze
entitled
The Maker of Peace, owned by the State of Texas, overlooks the
ancient Fate Bell rock shelter at Seminole Canyon State Historical Park
between Langtry and Comstock, Texas, west of Del Rio.
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