{"id":84913,"date":"2025-10-29T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=84913"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:09:48","slug":"cover-artist-bill-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/cover-artist-bill-george\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Cover Artist:<\/strong> Bill George"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_84924\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84924\" class=\"wp-image-84924 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Rust-in-Peace-1.-Bill-George-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Rust-in-Peace-1.-Bill-George-artist-copy.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Rust-in-Peace-1.-Bill-George-artist-copy-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Rust-in-Peace-1.-Bill-George-artist-copy-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Rust-in-Peace-1.-Bill-George-artist-copy-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Rust-in-Peace-1.-Bill-George-artist-copy-1536x1032.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Rust-in-Peace-1.-Bill-George-artist-copy-810x544.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Rust-in-Peace-1.-Bill-George-artist-copy-1140x766.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Rust-in-Peace-1.-Bill-George-artist-copy-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rust in Peace #1. Bill George, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Brooklyn, NY, Bill George discovered art at an early age and found inspiration all around him as he took up pencil and paintbrush. \u201cI would often draw family members at the kitchen table,\u201d he says. \u201cMy father worked for MGM Studios. He would bring me stills from movies when I wanted to use them as a reference for a painting.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84925\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84925\" class=\"wp-image-84925\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Square-x-Square-1.-Bill-George-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"395\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Square x Square 1. Bill George, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When it came time to choose a career, and because he had always been encouraged by his parents, he chose the field of art. \u201cI originally wanted to be an illustrator,\u201d George says, \u201cbut switched to graphic design as a career, opening my business on Madison Avenue in NYC where my urge to do art was satisfied\u2014creating comps for ads and commercial illustrations\u2014at a time when everything was hand-drawn, before computers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he moved to White Plains, NY, the Reilly Group held an open studio two nights a week for sessions drawing live models. \u201cSince I had studied with Frank Reilly at his school in NYC, I was familiar with his techniques,\u201d George says. \u201cThat got me on the road to oil painting.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84922\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84922\" class=\"wp-image-84922\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Draped-in-Gold.-Bill-George-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Draped-in-Gold.-Bill-George-artist-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Draped-in-Gold.-Bill-George-artist-copy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Draped-in-Gold.-Bill-George-artist-copy-1024x1020.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Draped-in-Gold.-Bill-George-artist-copy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Draped-in-Gold.-Bill-George-artist-copy-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Draped-in-Gold.-Bill-George-artist-copy-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Draped-in-Gold.-Bill-George-artist-copy-810x807.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Draped-in-Gold.-Bill-George-artist-copy-1140x1135.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Draped in Gold Bill George, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Throughout his career, he has afforded himself study with many teachers so that his approach to painting has evolved to include still life, copies of Old Masters, figurative work, landscapes, frescoes and animals. \u201cWhen I moved to Asheville, I studied at the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas with Ben Long, known for his frescoes throughout North Carolina,\u201d says George. He and his wife Bernadette St. Pierre-George, an artist also, have taken many workshops at Flying Colors Art Workshops in Acapulco, Mexico. \u201cMeeting artists from all over the world as well as world-class instructors\u2014Diane Maxey, Linda A. Doll, Cheng-Kee Chee, Barbara Nechis, Sheila Parsons\u2014helped me to see watercolor as a fine art medium,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84923\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84923\" class=\"wp-image-84923\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Paper-Curls-3.-Bill-George-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Paper-Curls-3.-Bill-George-artist-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Paper-Curls-3.-Bill-George-artist-copy-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Paper-Curls-3.-Bill-George-artist-copy-1024x835.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Paper-Curls-3.-Bill-George-artist-copy-768x626.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Paper-Curls-3.-Bill-George-artist-copy-810x660.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Paper-Curls-3.-Bill-George-artist-copy-1140x929.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paper Curls 3. Bill George, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>George paints in oils currently, but works in many mediums: watercolor, pastel, gouache, fresco and charcoal. \u201cI start a new painting with a detailed drawing or I just start drawing with a brush,\u201d he says. \u201cI paint in the indirect method: a method in which the final effects in a painting are built up gradually by placing several layers of paint, one over the other, the upper layers modifying, but not altogether concealing the lower layers. I finish the final details with glazes and scumbling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George often challenges himself by planning and executing series of works. \u201cThe <em>Square x Square<\/em> paintings evolved when I thought, why don\u2019t I paint a still life but in an untraditional manner,\u201d he says. \u201cI thought of my icon portraits which are painted in a similar style (with squares) and used that idea to create a still life with an edgier look. Some squares with subtle color changes and some with vibrant color changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84921\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84921\" class=\"wp-image-84921\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Dali-Gala.-Bill-George-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Dali-Gala.-Bill-George-artist-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Dali-Gala.-Bill-George-artist-copy-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Dali-Gala.-Bill-George-artist-copy-826x1024.jpg 826w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Dali-Gala.-Bill-George-artist-copy-768x952.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Dali-Gala.-Bill-George-artist-copy-810x1004.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cover-Artist-Dali-Gala.-Bill-George-artist-copy-1140x1414.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dali &amp; Gala. Bill George, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His series generally are composed of six to nine paintings, and he finds excitement in seeing how each piece relates to the others as he works. The Iris series was one he wanted to have finished for an upcoming show at the Asheville Gallery of Art. \u201cI painted one a month for the five months preceding the show,\u201d he says. \u201cThat was a marathon, and I finished just in time. After that, I didn\u2019t paint for two months and spent time thinking of the next series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With subjects, he enjoys the unexpected. \u201cI like to show people something they may not have seen, or from a different perspective,\u201d he says. \u201cIn my <em>Rust in Peace<\/em> series, I thought, people are used to seeing new cars, but to make an abandoned car the subject of a painting, that\u2019s something different!\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84942\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84942\" class=\"wp-image-84942\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/296\u201424_-Iris-_7-Sweet-pallida-Lam-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/296\u201424_-Iris-_7-Sweet-pallida-Lam-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/296\u201424_-Iris-_7-Sweet-pallida-Lam-copy-2-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/296\u201424_-Iris-_7-Sweet-pallida-Lam-copy-2-1024x1014.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/296\u201424_-Iris-_7-Sweet-pallida-Lam-copy-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/296\u201424_-Iris-_7-Sweet-pallida-Lam-copy-2-768x760.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/296\u201424_-Iris-_7-Sweet-pallida-Lam-copy-2-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/296\u201424_-Iris-_7-Sweet-pallida-Lam-copy-2-810x802.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/296\u201424_-Iris-_7-Sweet-pallida-Lam-copy-2-1140x1129.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iris #7, Sweet Pallida Lam. Bill<br \/>George, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His work is represented by the Asheville Gallery of Art, where, says gallery president Margie Kluska, George takes time to help other artists with all aspects of their art\u2014from gallery operations to framing artwork. \u201cHis paintings are exquisite representations of still-life objects\u2014autos, flowers, paper\/scissors\/stones and, recently, paper curls,\u201d Kluska says. \u201cHe chooses interesting backgrounds\u2014sometimes subtle and sometimes adding pizzazz to his work. The details of his objects are so realistic as to make you believe they are photos, but they have an added touch of glamour that pulls you into the painting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like many area artists, Hurricane Helene put things into perspective for George. \u201cAs an artist, I find myself turning to my work as both a refuge and a way to process what has happened,\u201d he says. \u201cPainting allows me to translate loss and resilience into something that speaks beyond words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn more about Bill George Art at <a href=\"http:\/\/BillGeorge.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BillGeorge.net<\/a>, and follow on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bgeorge912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> (bgeorge 912) and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/billgeorge_art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> (billgeorge_art). Studio visits are by appointment, and can be arranged by calling 914.462.1690 or emailing b&#x67;&#x65;o&#x72;&#x67;e&#x40;&#x73;y&#x6e;&#x65;r&#x67;&#x79;a&#x72;&#x74;s&#x2e;&#x63;o&#x6d;. His work is available at Asheville Gallery of Art, 82 Patton Avenue, Asheville. For more about AGA, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/AshevilleGalleryofArt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AshevilleGalleryofArt.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Brooklyn, NY, Bill George discovered art at an early age and found inspiration all around him as he took up pencil and paintbrush. \u201cI would often draw family members at the kitchen table,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":84925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-visual-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cover Artist: Bill George - The Laurel of Asheville<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Growing up in Brooklyn, NY, Bill George discovered art at an early age and found inspiration all around him as he took up pencil and paintbrush. \u201cI would often draw family members at the kitchen table,\u201d he says.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/cover-artist-bill-george\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cover Artist: Bill George - 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