Licensed Artwork by Bill Bell/artlicensing.com

Thelmas-Daughter is proud to license products designed with the artwork of Bill Bell, who is a completely self-taught artist who took up painting full-time after a successful career as a musician and record company executive. For Bill, painting is a compulsion; "it is also my fun, my therapy, and my challenge." Working in brilliant acrylics, he creates richly detailed and visually complex scenes based on memories and impressions of people, pets, events, and dreams that have shaped his life. His unique and enchanting designs have been broadly reproduced commercially. Bill likes to emphasize the activities of people and animals. His work always invites the viewer to explore the entire canvas and revel in the activity, color and fantastic details he includes so effectively. "I paint nostalgia and nonsense," says the artist. "Nostalgia for the world that used to be and nonsense for the world of my dreams." Each one of his paintings is brimming with the joy he chooses to see in his life.