William (Bill) Alther is a representational painter, working primarily in oil. He has been an active artist, either part-time or full-time, for more than 25 years and has advanced his artistic development through workshops and classes at the Rocky Mountain School of Art & Design and the Denver Art Students League. “Perhaps my most beneficial training has come from friendships and painting sessions with other artists. I nearly always learn something from hanging around with them, whether they’re nationally prominent or just starting out.” His interest and background in natural sciences, including a degree in wildlife biology and 12 years as a zoologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, provides additional insight for rendering convincing images of the natural world. “I am most attracted to landscape and wildlife subjects, which often go hand in hand. But I don’t want to be limited. Anything I find compelling is a possibility for a painting.”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
 
-Salon International, 2006, Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, San Antonio, TX
-Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition, 2006, Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT
-Oil Painters of America Central Regional, 2005, Snowfire Gallery, Estes Park, CO
-American Birds: A Flight Through Time, 2005, The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO
-Colorado Art Open, 2005, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
-IV Centuries of Birds in Paintings, Sculpture & Fine Prints, 2003, Clarke Galleries, Stowe, VT
-Birds in Art, 1997, 2001, 2004, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
-Arts for the Parks (Top 100 2003, 2005; Miniatures 2002, 2004), National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson, WY