Member since 23-Nov-10
Visitors 500
71 photos
Welcome! My site is for general information and a guide for custom orders. If you are interested in my current inventory and give me an idea of motif/design you like I will email pics to you. My pieces run from $100. for the smallest (2"-3" diameter) on up.
Show schedule:
2012
JANUARY 13, 14 & 15-CAREFREE FINE ART AND WINE FESTIVAL-CAREFREE, AZ-AT THE SUNDIAL-DOWNTOWN CAREFREE-www.thunderbirdartists.com
FEBRUARY 10, 11 & 12-WIGWAM FESTIVAL OF FINE ARTS-WIGWAM RESORT-LITCHFIELD PARK, AZ-300 W. WIGWAM BLVD.
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MARCH 9, 10 & 11-SCOTTSDALE ARTS FESTIVAL-SCOTTSDALE, AZ-AT THE CIVIC CENTER/CENTER FOR THE ARTS-www.scottsdaleartsfestival.org
APRIL 6, 7 & 8-INDIAN WELLS ARTS FESTIVAL-INDIAN WELLS, CA-AT THE TENNIS GARDEN-www.indianwellsartsfestival.com
MAY 17-18-GOURD CRAFTING WORKSHOP-CONTACT MOUNTAIN ARTISTS GUILD FOR INFO AND ENROLLMENT-
www.mountainartistsguild.org 928-445-2510
MORE TO BE ADDED AS JURY RESULTS ARE FORWARDED TO ME...
About
Contact Info
| Address | Chino Valley, AZ United States |
| Daytime phone | 928-925-6339 |
| Mobile phone | 928-925-6339 |
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| Web site | www.billcolligen.com |
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I was raised on a dairy farm in New Hampshire and moved West when I was a teenager. After high school and one and a half semesters of college in Arizona I decided to head to California to find more options to help me decide what direction I wanted to pursue. I worked various jobs from selling womens' shoes, restaurant, title insurance, retail management and finally ending with landscape work with a contractor in Los Gatos. I went out on my own somewhere around '85 doing mainly landscape maintenace with some installation. I moved back to Arizona in 1992 and continued with landscape work and nursery mgmt.
Around 1995 I took a trip with a friend to Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico and discovered some amazing gourd art by an artist named Robert Rivera. I became so inspired I started fooling around with gourds beginning with a Walmart wood burner and some paint. As I progressed I realized that detail was my forte- inspired by Native American geometric pottery designs with some Asian influence. In 1997 I joined the Artists' Coop in Jerome, Arizona and put my work on display for sale. I was amazed that people were taken with my work and actually gave me money for it! I left the coop and my landscaping job in 2000 and began a career exhibiting at fine art shows in the Southwest. The Sedona Arts Festival was my first show and followed by upscale shows in the Phoenix area, Santa Fe, the Bay Area and So. Cal.
My techniqes include: relief carving, pyro-engraving, metal leafing, acrylic dots, ink dyes, inlaid stone, bamboo/reed handles and are finished with a patinaed bronze application.
2010 AWARDS INCLUDE: BEST OF SHOW-SANTA FE PLAZA ARTS FESTIVAL-August
BEST OF SHOW-SEDONA ARTS FESTIVAL-October
My work can be seen at the LANNING GALLERY, Hozho Center, Sedona, Arizona
Tel.-928-282-6865
www.lanninggallery.com
My work has been recently installed (as of 01/19/2011) at VAN GOGH'S EAR GALLERY, 156B South Montezuma, (Whiskey Row) Prescott, Arizona
Tel.- 928-776-1080
www.vgegallery.com
My work will be featured under "Things We Love" (Pg. 53) in the Fall/Winter issue of WESTERN ART & ARCHITECTURE publication!
Arizona Collectors Guide-2011-2012-Van Gogh's Ear Gallery-Page 237
Around 1995 I took a trip with a friend to Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico and discovered some amazing gourd art by an artist named Robert Rivera. I became so inspired I started fooling around with gourds beginning with a Walmart wood burner and some paint. As I progressed I realized that detail was my forte- inspired by Native American geometric pottery designs with some Asian influence. In 1997 I joined the Artists' Coop in Jerome, Arizona and put my work on display for sale. I was amazed that people were taken with my work and actually gave me money for it! I left the coop and my landscaping job in 2000 and began a career exhibiting at fine art shows in the Southwest. The Sedona Arts Festival was my first show and followed by upscale shows in the Phoenix area, Santa Fe, the Bay Area and So. Cal.
My techniqes include: relief carving, pyro-engraving, metal leafing, acrylic dots, ink dyes, inlaid stone, bamboo/reed handles and are finished with a patinaed bronze application.
2010 AWARDS INCLUDE: BEST OF SHOW-SANTA FE PLAZA ARTS FESTIVAL-August
BEST OF SHOW-SEDONA ARTS FESTIVAL-October
My work can be seen at the LANNING GALLERY, Hozho Center, Sedona, Arizona
Tel.-928-282-6865
www.lanninggallery.com
My work has been recently installed (as of 01/19/2011) at VAN GOGH'S EAR GALLERY, 156B South Montezuma, (Whiskey Row) Prescott, Arizona
Tel.- 928-776-1080
www.vgegallery.com
My work will be featured under "Things We Love" (Pg. 53) in the Fall/Winter issue of WESTERN ART & ARCHITECTURE publication!
Arizona Collectors Guide-2011-2012-Van Gogh's Ear Gallery-Page 237
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New Gallery
Visitors 303
15 photos
Created 30-Nov-10
Modified 30-Nov-10
More vessels.....
Visitors 193
24 photos
Created 9-Nov-11
Modified 9-Nov-11
Work in progress....
Visitors 131
14 photos
Created 5-Dec-10
Modified 5-Dec-10
Lanning Gallery reception-March 4, 2011
Visitors 60
11 photos
Created 8-Mar-11
Modified 8-Mar-11
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