I paint to bring God pleasure and bless Him with the gift He put inside of me.

Born in Milwaukee, with a degree in Art & Design from the Art Institute of Portland. William developed art curriculum for  primary education and taught in a christian school in Salem, Or. for years. Prior to this He travelled around the world from 1992-1999, experiencing his observations and involvement of various cultures and people groups in many remote natural areas. William left  teaching in 2000 to paint full-time, and has since travelled widely with a new purpose of exploring the wilderness and nature from a Biblical world view. He and his wife Carin settled in Arizona in 2018.

William has been a conservation conscious artist and naturalist from his childhood. His paintings skills were evident when he took his first art class in high school and within the year His work was hanging in local banks, galleries, and establishments. His choice to paint wildlife and nature stems from his childhood interaction with the wild animals of the surrounding forest where he was raised in Wisconsin. His style, developed from a desire to bring the audience into the environment of the wildlife as if they were witnessing the creation of the entire scene. From the time he began selling his work in the late 1980’s his paintings evolved into works of expression that communicated his belief in mankind’s stewardship of the earth as assigned from the Creator Himself.

William’s art communicates the commitment he has to his faith and skill reflected in nature. He desires that all people would take a slow look around them and realize that nothing could have been created by accident and that everyone should give credit to the great One, the Creator we call God.

William has always looked at the world as a great place for exploration and experiences, and in order to teach this through experience, and bring others into that understanding, he spent several years teaching young people wilderness survival skills. Spending day after day in Oregon wildness areas for entire summers, William would lead small groups of young teens to discover a new view of the wild, from tracking, to fire and shelter building, to foraging for food. All this time was spent to teach youth how to respect, care for and survive the world of nature that God created for us.

William Arnold’s prints have gone to support various charity organizations that he feels understand the responsibility we have to preservation.