Billy Mcbride

Most of all, I like to make music, and perhaphs by making art I am helping out my musical style so I keep every now and again developing different ways to present a subject matter. Most of my subject matters are abstract but more and more I am thinking of them as visual. I do not have a visual imagination, but I do have a good verbal imagination and memory, and so most all of my art is based off of how I can relate language to a visual idea, interpretation or image. The result is a changing style of art, but one that to my eyes is memorable enough to stick with in my mind to develop and/or enjoy later when I can. But most of all, I think I make art to be a better musician, which I am since I invent melodies on my synthesizer. I have recorded and published my music on the internet, many pieces of mine are made as improvisations, pure raptures which I go on, in a sober but focused way. Like music, my art uses an improvisational and playful series of techniques. I think that my reading of great literature all of the time also helps me be in a creative mood, so I also give credit to literature for forming my mind, and also the Angels whom I love who help me read and who guide me through life.

From a few far ranging schools:
San Antonio College,
The University of Houston,
UTSA,
Southwest School of Art and Craft,
and Private Watercolor lessons.by a famous Texan painter

"Not only...but also" A Group Architectural Conference at Carnigie Mellon in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. I presented models of a larger sculpture I made in a backyard garden. 1997.