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INTRODUCTION
These pages contain photos of original fine art produced by Bill Mahan. 
Pages 2-6 contain work that is available for sale.  
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ARTIST"S STATEMENT
   I became fascinated with art around age three.  That's when my grandmother showed me how to make magic come out of a pencil.  She drew a few circles and squares and suddenly there were trains, houses and automobiles on the paper.  I won my first art contest at the age of twelve. It was a Father’s Day promotion at Sears.  The prize was a power drill for Dad. 

 Art always seemed like too much fun to pursue for a living, so I have painted recreationally for years while keeping the day job.  Formal art training was whatever I could squeeze in between work, including courses at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.  My day jobs included factory worker, wrestler, umpire, insurance investigator and lawyer.  I spent over thirty years with the US Army and Air Force in logistics and security where I did much travelling.  At the same time my interest in history led me to conduct interviews with family members and author a family history.  All of these things have influenced my art. 

The work I did on family history is reflected in paintings like “Packard Coming” and “Hard Times”.  I was surprised to learn that during the Great Depression my family often had to choose between eating and paying the rent.   “Hard Times” depicts the morning after a night out in the woods, and it was not a camping trip.  Travel has also influenced my work.  Pieces like “The Road Home” and “Nebraska Barn” would not have happened without it. 

I usually work from my own photographs but, as noted above, I have an interest in the look and style of the early 1900s.  I refer to old family photos for those pieces.  My work is almost exclusively acrylics on canvas.  I am primarily a representational painter, though I do occassionally have fun with other genres like the surreal “How Do We Get Outside the Box?”.

Over 40 of my paintings have been juried into shows, I have won contests sponsored by the Blue Man Group and the AARP (see November on their 2009 calendar).   I paint to please myself but certainly hope to have pleased you too. 

I can be reached by e-mail at wmahan@rcn.com , or through the guestbook on this website.

The artist retains all rights associated with creative property.  None of the works represented on this site may be copied without the express written permission of the artist.  Inquiries and comments are welcome on the guestbook page or via e-mail at wmahan@rcn.com.