An American master painter
Known for his luminous and colorful oil paintings, master painter Bill Rane married the classical with the contemporary. His timeless textured canvases are full of myths and glyphs and codices. His unique style encompasses goddesses and geese, pelicans and pomegranates, mythical animals and sea creatures. His range is broad - from the intuit of ancient cave paintings to the embrace of elaborate sea scrolls. The Hellenic female form appears in much of his work.

Born in Bend, Oregon and raised in Idaho, Rane's artistic talent was recognized even as a child. After time in the US Navy during WW II, Bill studied art and literature at Boise Junior College, the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley.

A unique synthesis of the classical and contemporary
As an oil painter, he loved to let the globs of oil paint build up on a canvas - weaving, dripping and dropping, randomly, from the steady hand of the master painter. His work, often stylized figurative women, is laden with myths and sylphs and rich in iconography. Bill often liked to refer to” The Literature of Paint.” He was a great reader and a lover of metaphor. In his work one can always see the footprint (or the heartbeat) of humanity’s reach for beauty and culture–not unlike the reach of the master himself.