William Parmer

A North Country resident since 1975, Bill grew up in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  That background continues to influence the way Bill responds to local scenes.  His plein air paintings, made in all kinds of weather year-round, often depict farmhouses, barns, and the surrounding fields, woods and mountains. In the course of his career, his paintings have chronicled farms and barns which no longer exist in the North Country landscape.

Bill really likes barns.  When talking about them, he quotes artist Wolf Kahn, who compared American barns to temples in Greece and Rome.  
Love of water is another constant for Bill, his focus on the way humans have experienced and used rivers throughout time.