I am a third generation San Franciscan, now living in Menlo Park, California. The son of a tool maker, I have worked artistically with my hands since I was a young boy. I earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from UC Berkeley and have exhibited in several California galleries. My work has been purchased by both private collectors and corporate buyers. While I spent most of my younger adulthood running a family printing equipment business and raising two boys,  I now have the time and ambition to pursue my sculpture full time.

As a sculptor, the ideas for my work come from personal aesthetics and from the medium. Every piece of wood has a story to tell in its grain patterns and ultimately, in its shape. My goal is to integrate naturally occurring characteristics and my own perceptions into visually evocative results.

I don’t necessarily have a preconceived notion of what a piece is ‘supposed’ to represent and every sculpture is open to individual interpretation. Most are organic in nature and in keeping with an affinity for the natural world, but vague enough to engender a sense of mystery and uncertainty.

I employ lamination, texture, paint and stain as extensions of the artistic process and to free me from the typical constraints of purely subtractive carving. What the viewer sees is the planned but partly subconscious combination of all these elements.

Bill Stoesser