AWARD-WInning ARTIST / EMERITUS ARCHITECT
William Nadeau, a native of the Cleveland, Ohio area, has always been drawing something with anything. After high school he spent three years in the military and was stationed on Okinawa during the beginning of the Vietnam conflict. After discharge, and few years of trying to find his niche in life, he went on to higher education.
Receiving a degree in architecture from Ohio University and establishing his private practice shortly thereafter, left very little leisure time to dabble in his hobby of painting
As a retired professional, he finds plenty of time to sharpen his artistic talents and especially his love of “pushing pigments” around on a wet piece of watercolor paper. He often will comment on the way that watercolor pigments have a lot of spunk and are completely capable of doing their own paintings without our involvement.
“I’ll often lightly touch a well dampened piece of paper with a loaded brush tip and just watch with amazement as the pigment immediately explodes. Letting this happen is all part of the freedom of this media. Controlling this activity is where the pushing takes place. If you push just right you will receive a tremendous amount of satisfaction from the pigments. Push them around too much you’ll get mud… just like people.”