Bill Firestone is everything—and nothing—that you expect. He is at once creative and practical, imagination with purpose. He takes after his father, a farmer who went, as Bill puts it, "way beyond utility" in planning and planting the land.

Bill's first brush with art occurred in the first grade and painting and drawing were natural things to do. He later worked with Paul Miller and then Theresa Pollack at Virginia Commonwealth University, both former students of Hans Hofmann, the abstract expressionist.

Dynamic brushwork and spontaneous technique are the distinguishing features of Bill's paintings, with a bold use of color articulated with strong movement and light. His paintings hang in a number of public and private collections. Among them are the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Piper Rudnick LLP.