WBThompson

From the beginning William Bradley Thompson, has combined his Hudson River Valley cradle in a stained glass pre-Revolutionary war farmhouse with the heat of the tropics. Bill Thompson mines his childhood memories for his work to produce a wealth of brilliant multicolored images, which engross and provoke.

At the age of 20 he studied art at Trinity University and was greatly encouraged by his professor Mr. Bristow who became the most devoted collector of his deftly abstracted yet realistic images painted with stylistic innovation.

Bill's first vocational attraction however was law. He attended law school at Trinity as well and sold his paintings in order to pay for tuition and expenses while continuing to master the arts.

He passed the bar and became a lawyer with a brush for a while, until he realized that painting had taken over his heart. When asked, he simply says that he has no plan to return to law, that he made an affirmative decision in his mind and can't imagine doing anything else. He has pursued his own course, and gone his own way.

His motifs are alive with bold slashes of brilliant colors; sapphire, emerald, orange, saffron and scarlet. His vivid, energetic was chosen for a book about his work by U. of Texas were he studied law. "San Antonio Colors" comes out this fall.