William Eager
Art for Your Imagination

William Eager creates acrylic, mixed media, photography and digital artwork that awakens your imagination.

My abstract artwork is deeply connected to my love of nature… specifically animals and plant life. My biomorphic paintings such as Chili Pepper and Expansion share the exotic shapes and colors which are designed to attract pollinators.  The exotic dance of life often involves competition and collaboration with other plants, weaving themselves together in a dazzling display of chaotic entanglement.  What we see above ground is often a mirror of the beautiful entanglement and evolution that occurs unseen, below the soil, which I try to capture in my “Roots Run Deep” series. 

For several  years I have also been intrigued by graffiti, petroglyphs and pictographs… especially images discovered on stones, walls and buildings.  Some have existed for thousands of years.... others a few weeks.  These images, words, messages, scratches and drawings pile up on each other over time.  Like layers of shellac that represent ideas and feelings of people who live today… and others who lived ages ago when a different sense of society and relationships between man and nature existed.  Like an archeologist who uncovers mysteries about society as they dig back through a site; my art layers one message on top of another.  

Indeed, the flat surface of canvas, paper and digital take on a new dimension when images, words and symbols are layered.  Unlike the optical illusion of three dimensions created in a landscape or portrait, it invokes our imagination to fill in the gaps creating personal meaning and experiencing what our own mind creates.  Certain themes remain eternal.  Animals, plants, nature, children, love and beauty.  I sincerely hope you enjoy the art work and that it triggers your imagination to fly.

Artist Bio

I am a prolific artist, writer, photographer and playwright.  I studied art under Boston artist Don Moulton and photography with Lee Friedlander (I think you will see his influence in my photographs) and Marie Cosindas at Colorado College.  I studied art history at Bucknell University where my father was Chairman of the Art Department.  I have had my paintings and photography shown in New York, Bucknell University, The Lakewood Cultural Center, Gallery West in Denver, the CORE Art Space anime show called Kandy Kulture, the Eldorado at Santa Fe Studio Tour, on Canyon Road in Santa Fe at Mosaik Gallery and with the Taos Abstract Artists Collective.

My photographs have been featured on covers and stories in magazines including Forbes Magazine and Children & Science.   I have done corporate photography for BASF Corporation, IBM and NREL (the National Renewable Energy Laboratory); and I have photographed native healers and shamans around the world.  See: Bills People Photos. My photograph "I Dream of Peace" was included in the 2022 Indianapolis Art Center’s Exhibition: “Convergence: A Contemporary Photography Exhibition."  

My art videos Eidelons and Watercolors premiered at the 40 West Arts District in Denver (see below for links to the videos).  

I have written 12 books and recently wrote and produced a play called The Artist, The Shaman and The Acupuncturist performed online by members of the Denver Center for Performing Arts.  I studied art history at Bucknell University, have a BFA in Filmmaking from the University of Bridgeport and a Masters Degree in Communications from Syracuse University.