WILLIAM ROY

contact:

William R. Roy
2404 Brookens Circle
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 367-7975
wroy@uiuc.edu

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/wroy/www/

Painting: representational, surrealistic, abstract

William Roy began painting at the age of about 14, and at one time considered art as a possible vocation in life. However, he chose science for his career path. Dr. Roy is a Senior Geochemist with the Illinois State Geological Survey, and an Adjunct Professor in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a long hiatus away from art, however, he decided to paint again in about 1999. Working largely as a self-taught painter, he often uses acrylics, but occasionally uses oils to create representational creations, and infrequent experiments with surrealistic and abstract subjects.

He has been rendering compositions that reflect the passage of time in his world, environmental art, Celtic themes, portraits, and other subjects. He is a newcomer to the local art scene, and he hopes to continue to produce paintings in his barn studio behind his home for years to come.

His paintings have been recently shown at the 2004-2007 Artists Against Aids art show/sale, Champaign, Celticscapes, Urbana, the 2005 Boneyard Arts Festival, Urbana-Champaign, and Environment Horizons (2005-2007), sponsored by the Environmental Council, University of Illinois. Heartland Gallery in downtown Urbana often displays a selection of his paintings.