Meet - William Gullette

MEET - William Gullette

"The life of the creative man is led, directed, and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. It is also one of the most difficult, because the amusement always has to be newer and on a higher level. So we are on a kind of spiral. The higher you go, the narrow the circle. As you go ahead the field of choice becomes more meager, in terms of self-entertainment. In the end, working is good because it is the last refuge of the man who wants to be amused. Not everything that amused me in the past amuses me so much any more."
Saul Stienberg
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                       Portrait by J. Grant Brittain

ABOUT

William Gullette has been a visual artist since the first time he was able to hold a mark making implement. He holds Bachelor and Master of Arts Degrees with emphasis in painting, drawing, and printmaking from San Diego State University and an Associate Arts Degree in Photography from San Diego City College. He has been an award-winning professional photographer in the San Diego region since the mid-1970’s and is a Professor Emeritus at Palomar College in San Marcos, CA. where he taught for 24 years. Among many other achievements including being presented with an Outstanding Instructor Award in 2002 by the Student Showcase directors at the San Diego County Fair, Will was responsible for converting the photography department’s studio to full digital photography at the dawn of the digital revolution. Over Will’s career his photography has appeared in several national and regional publications including San Diego Magazine in the 1980’s and San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine where he was a contributing photographer for over 30 years. His work also appeared in National Theatrical publications related to his work for San Diego’s Old Globe Theater in Balboa Park. Upon retirement, wishing to once again follow his true passion, Will started drawing and painting again. He started out primarily painting “En Plein Air” (painting on locations directly from the subject) and is widely recognized for that work as well as his studio paintings. He has taken workshops with noted Plein Air masters George Strickland, John Budicin, Matt Smith, Dick Heichburger, Michael Situ, Ray Roberts, and Jill Carver. Will continues to receive awards for his work in juried exhibitions. He considers the most important, the “Rookie of the Year” Award in the 2010 5th Annual US Plein Air Painters Open on Whidbey Island, WA. He has exhibited in many annual Plein Air exhibitions at the Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in San Diego’s back country and has had three one-person painting exhibitions there to date. Will travels extensively painting and photographing along the way. He says: “It gives me a reason to go somewhere and something to do when I get there. I hope to die with a camera in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.”
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