William Guion

The skills I've learned as an analog film and digital photographer and advertising creative director are all utilized in my work. My early influences were large-format black-and-white photographers of the California Central Coast and the impressionistic landscape painters of the 1900s. My Southwest images begin as black-and-white photographs, from both negative and infrared digital images. I "abstract" the images and then paint them, using multiple thin layers of oil paint. Larger sizes are available by commission.

I am largely self-taught as an artist. I was introduced to black-and-white photography as part of my journalistic studies in college. I received more formal photographic training through participation as a student and assistant in various photography workshops through the Friends of Photography in Carmel, CA. My early work was influenced by this West Coast "straight" large-format approach to black-and-white photography. Following the advice of one of my workshop instructors to “find something I loved and photograph it over and over," I began a series of images of live oak trees of the South. This evolved into a long-term (30-plus years) project that continues today. A sampling of my work over the past three decades is contained in my six books.

• The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, benefit
group exhibit, 2020
• Artists in the Park, City Park, New
Orleans, LA - group exhibit
• Nicholls State University Ellender Library,
solo exhibit and book signing, spring 2019
• Taylor Clark Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA, solo exhibit, winter 2018
• Louisiana Office of Tourism, Lafourche Parish, Historic Oaks of Bayou Lafourche, summer 2018
• Nicholls State University Ellender Library, solo exhibit, Historic Oaks of Bayou Lafourche, spring 2018
• Taylor Clark Gallery, group winter exhibits 2005–2010
• Hinc Studio, San Francisco, CA, Susan G. Komen exhibit 2008
• Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA, Susan Komen group benefit exhibit 2008
• Carmel Art Center, Carmel, CA, group exhibit, Weston Photography Scholarship exhibits, 2007 & 2008
• Santa Lucia Preserve, Carmel Valley, CA, group exhibit, fall 2005, spring 2006
• Gallery 912, Lafayette, LA, solo exhibit, winter 2002
• Gallerie Avance’, New Orleans, LA, solo exhibit, winter 2001
• Jules Place Gallery, Boston, MA, group exhibit, 2000
• Taylor Clark Gallery, “3-Louisiana Artists,” winter, 1999
• Taylor Clark Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA, solo exhibit, winter 1998
• Soho Myriad Gallery, Atlanta, GA, group exhibits 1996–97
• Gallery of Southern Photographer...