William Schumann

William Schumann was born and has lived in North Carolina for most of his life, but is also shaped by experiences living in the American Southeast and Northeast, as well as in Belgium, Thailand, and Wales. William started painting in the 1990s but dedicated more time to his practice during the Covid pandemic. A lot of his work finds inspiration from the continuous growth and renewal of nature, which he explores through intuitive patterns and unexpected colors. William’s goal is to express the joyous vitality he sees in the world, which is also to recognize its frailty. Whether figurative or abstract, his paintings typically saturate the canvas in layers of color distributed through hundreds or thousands of brushstrokes. William’s hope is that the energy in his paintings invites viewers to reflect on the inspirations of hope and possibility that shape their own lives.