Winn’s multimedia works featured at La Petite Gallerie

La Petite Gallerie, the intimate Old Town Bluffton shop featuring local art, continues to introduce its gallery artists to newcomers to the area while reintroducing the artists to longtime friends.

This month the gallery is featuring the multi-talented Bill Winn. Winn’s watercolors, oils and acrylic paintings depict vignettes of the land, sea, cities and people that he captures as a moment in time.

His work often portrays images of the landscape and structures that surround us, sometimes focusing on those which are often overlooked in the hectic pace of today’s world.

One of Winn’s current favorites is “Through the Dunes,” a 26 x 34 oil painting recently completed and on display at the gallery.

“The painting incorporates a favorite theme of mine called ‘people without people.’ There are obvious hints that people have used the cut for beach access, but no people are in the painting,” Winn said.

“The footprints serve to guide the viewer through the cut to the beach and distant sea.”

Winn is a practicing medical illustrator at the top of his field, which has an impact on his talents as a fine artist, giving him an outlet for real creativity and spontaneity that are a delight to the viewer.

“The world as I see it, both as a medical illustrator and fine artist, has always been a delight in viewing and capturing the world in detail,” Winn said. “This passion has been and remains the underlying source that drives my work. I look for and strive to convey the beauty of the world that surrounds us.”

Winn is on hand to welcome you on Tuesdays at La Petite Gallerie. He also shows at the SOBA Gallery in Bluffton and welcomes inquiries for commissions.

La Petite Gallerie is located at 56 Calhoun St. in Old Town, next to The Store. For more information, visit lapetitegallerie. com.