Bill Reed

Bill Reed – Artists Statement

Much of the time my art develops from an inner feeling of wanting to communicate with others via the visual mediums I work with.  My cartoons are probably the fastest way for me to make a strong statement about something that has happened in politics or society.  My paintings take a softer approach as I look at the beauty of differences of life that I encounter.

My life has centered around art from an early age.  I started drawing when I was eleven or twelve and decided that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.  I spent four years at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and majored in film arts as an animation student.  I was able to work for The Walt Disney Studios on “The Jungle Book” and “Winney the Poo and the Blustery Day”, cutting my teeth as an inbetweener.  I loved the work so much that I spent the next forty years as an Animator and Director working on many Saturday morning cartoon shows and a few theatricals and commercials as well.  I discovered my love for painting in 1998 on a trip to Maui and have been developing my skills in different mediums ever since.