Will Wadsworth is a life long resident of Geneseo NY. Inspired by a trip to Italy will went back to painting, the passion of his early years. Will attended the State University of New York at Canton to prepare for life as a crop farmer. Before coming home though Will attended the Philadelphia College of Art summer program and one year art foundation program. Eager to get to work Will put down the brush and went to work on the farm. “At that time I didn’t feel I had anything to say thru my art and made a conscious decision to stop and wait until I did, If I ever did.” In 1985 a local flood forced Will to leave farming. For the next six years Will ran a successful custom picture framing business on Main Street in Geneseo. In 1991 Will took a job with Jones Chemicals, Inc. and spent the next 13 years doing regulatory compliance and business management work. Will began painting again in the year 2000. “I had stopped in mid painting back in 1992. The canvas was a landscape and it had always been on my mind that I should finish it. After finishing that painting, almost twenty years after starting it, I noticed that it had an essence missing in my earlier work.” So I painted another and so on until friends started asking if they could purchase my work. I owe a great debit of gratitude to my wife Louise and my daughters Lauren and Piper who have been nothing short of totally supportive, the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts http://www.gvcaonline.org/ for their members exhibits and encouragement, and all of the artists who have encouraged and helped me: Dick Beale, Eileen and Tom Bushnell, Julia Stewart and Gloria Betlem to name a few. Last, a special thank you to my Mother Pat Starkey Vondruska without whom I wouldn’t have existed to inherit her deep artistic aptitude or receive her unwavering and selfless support. “If you live somewhere long enough the landscape gets into your being. When I am painting I don’t feel like a technician but like a conduit. Sometimes it amazes me to watch what is happening in front of my eyes.