Bill Schmidt Artist Signed Limited Edition Serigraph on paper:"Mariners Cove"

Bill Schmidt graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, and began painting as a hobby. As he traveled with his engineering career around the country, he studied with landscape painters in New England and New York. By 1984, Bill's hobby had progressed into his full-time profession. Bill Schmidt was largely self-taught and developed his own painting style that was called by an art critic, "a unique American Impressionism."

As an Impressionist -plein air" oil painters, Bill paints outdoors in all seasons, making nature his studio for thirty-five years. -Painting on site can best capture the vibrancy and effects of color, light, and shadow in a scene," Bill believes. He finds the most joy in painting marines and water-related scenes, but he also takes pleasure in painting the countryside and street scenes. -I like nature, but also nature touched by people."