Read the full story by Joan Cusick at Sacramento News & Review
Change is a constant for artist William Ishmael.
Twenty years ago, he made the leap to full-time artist after a long and successful career as a civil engineer.
“The similarity between being an engineer and an artist is that as a civil engineer, I had to think in three dimensions — topography, hillsides, cuts and grades, and slopes,” Ishmael said during a recent interview at his art studio. “That’s what you do with art too. You’re thinking it through.”
On any given day in Ishmael’s art studio, you’ll find about a dozen projects in various stages of development — many exploring new media or new techniques. He paints on canvas and on metal. He works in ceramics. He creates art with found objects, both natural and manmade.