Bill Gotha has been painting all his life, but began painting professionally in 2014. He specializes in New England landscapes and seascapes; his favorite medium is oil paint. He paints en plein air and in his studio in Andover.
He minored in Fine Art at Holy Cross College in Worcester and has studied painting at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield. He is a former naval officer, was art director for several publishers in the Boston area, and managed an international marketing company before launching his painting career.
Bill had his first one-man show at Greenwald Gallery in Lowell in May 2016. In reviewing the show, Artscope Magazine remarked, “His work conveys the atmospheric feelings of the locations he paints, be it grass blades close by or threatening storm clouds hovering over distant mountains.” In February, 2017, Bill had a two-man show with interpretive artist, Joe Flaherty, at Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth, NH.
Bill exhibits at Studio 8 Gallery in Newburyport, Nantucket Carving and Folk Art Gallery in Nantucket, Barrett Gallery in Portsmouth, NH, and Village Gallery in York, ME. He also participates in numerous juried and non-juried shows at regional art associations and museums, including the Missoula Art Museum in Montana, and the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell. In 2017, Bill’s painting “Cliffs at Sand Beach” was part of an Oil Painters of America juried National Exhibit in Cincinnati, OH. He has been a juried participant in the past two National Exhibits at Cape Cod Art Association, and was recently selected for their juried All New England Exhibit, in which his painting “Forest Drumlin” won first prize for oils/acrylics. His painting “McWain Hill Birches I” was selected for the 2017 regional juried exhibit at The Guild of Boston Artists.
View his work at www.williamgotha.com and contact him at bill@williamgotha.com.
Level 1 Display Case
The display case features travel photographs by Memorial Hall Library staff member, Pam DiPesa.