Bill Stanton's Passing Shadow

Art in the Library presents a showing of oil paintings by local artist, Bill Stanton in the Naverson Room from May 30th  to the end of August. Please call the library for hours.

Bill Stanton, a long-time resident of Jacksonville and well-known artist who  paints rich landscapes in oils with a thick textural quality, learned to paint from his grandparents at an early age, both of whom were professional painters.

“My grandmother taught me watercolors and my grandfather taught me oils I have been painting ever since, and have worked in watercolors, acrylics, and oils but in the last few years I have done mainly oils.

Bill Stanton's Sunlit Clouds

My painting style is reminiscent of the impressionists and I use the impasto technique in most of my work. The depth and visceral quality of this technique gives my paintings the richness that I desire.”