[William Entrekin]

William Entrekin

William Entrekin was born in Rome Georgia in 1946, the son of mill workers. As a youth the family moved from mill town to mill town as work came and went for his parents. William had one brother Louis but often played alone and was very unhappy in school. The two or three moves a year meant new schools and few friends. This solitude was fertile ground for his imagination and creativity that later in life would pour out into his work. He was often sick as a child and spent hours drawing and dreaming of becoming an artist.

“When I look at a painting, I try to imagine myself inside it, and I imagine myself breathing in it. Some works that I see would suffocate me. In others, when I can feel the crispness of the air and smell the trees and woods around me, then I know it’s right!”
Entrekin seems to follow no set style nor does he set limits with is watercolors. He seams to spar with medium and paper to express the deep feeling that he has for each subject. These people and places he paints are very close to his heart and the real world around him. “I don’t paint eye candy and I can’t force myself to paint good sellers.” When we look deeply into this artist’s work, we too seem to know the people, feel the wind or the stillness in the trees and embark on a journey with this painter! No, Entrekin does not paint eye candy but more surely, “Candy for the Heart.”

William Entrekin Decoration Day, Watercolor 12 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches 05897

William Entrekin Thunder Head, 2007 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches 07087

William Entrekin Veranda 911, Egg Tempera 23 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches 04813

William Entrekin Life's Light, 2007 Watercolor 44 x 37 inches 05427

William Entrekin Mattie & Terry, Watercolor 14 x 20 inches 04828

William Entrekin Rocket Ride, 2007 Watercolor on paper 38 x 20 inches 06124