Bill Rowe

During my colorful 35 year career as a Landscape Architect, I started to paint watercolors as a means of stress relief.  I found that this humble beginning was not only great stress relief but challenging and rewarding.  This was the beginning of a love/hate  relationship with watercolor.  Love won out. However hate raises its ugly head from time to time. 

My watercolors are loose colorful impressionistic or representational works.  I strive to capture the essence of my impressions in the paintings. My works include landscapes, birds, petroglyphs, and abstracts.  I enjoy displaying my works at shows, the Boulder City Art Guild, LVAG, and City Lights Gallery in Henderson.  I have been juried into Boulder City’s Art In the Park, and various other shows in California and Arizona.  I was also represented by a small, now closed, gallery located near Zion National Park. 

After retirement I rekindled an old love affair with pottery.I enjoy creating things that satisfy my need to create. I also enjoy designing, creating, and firing wheel thrown pottery.   I enjoy the challenge of creating form, texture, and color.  Recently I have started to mix my own glazes.  This has been the greatest chemical education of my life. Currently I’m building a soda kiln. I just finished a downdraft cone 10 kiln conversion.  Most of my glazes have been cone 6. So you could say I’m caught between the devil and the deep blue see. Ok between cone 6 and cone 10 glazes.   I love making the forms & objects that fancy my imagination. I have found Raku. An ancient Japanese method of firing that includes taking pottery out of the kiln at high temperature and placing them in a reduction chamber where the carbon reacts with both the clay and glaze to  give unusual results.

 Life is full of choices. I hope you choose to experience my art. Thank you for giving me your most valuable possession , your time.