More concerned with the pictorial language of color, line, form, texture, and symbolism than with representational images, pictorial space in Bill Gingles' paintings are painted with layers of thickly trowelled, scraped, and scumbled paint and delicate layers of washed color. His paintings combine an interest in awareness and questions surrounding the nature of being with a lifelong fascination with the materiality of paint and the processes of painting itself.

“People make art for any number of reasons. My reasons are simple and fundamental. I love playing with the materials. The paint, the canvas, the paper, the brushes, all of it. I love being in my studio surrounded by all that stuff. Painting is how I commune with myself. It’s a means of stirring things up. It’s my alchemy, a way to find out what can happen when I mix my being with paint. It’s a way to make the paintings I need to see. The mirrors in which I can see myself.”

Bill Gingles' paintings are included in numerous important private and corporate collections throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, and the UK including:
-- The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
-- The Longview Museum of Art, Longview, Texas
-- Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
-- First Energy Capital Corporation, Calgary, Canada
-- Iberia Bank, Dallas, Texas
-- and Simplex Investments, Chicago, Illinois

He has also collaborated with former Louisiana Poet Laureate, Darrell Bourque to produce four books of Bourque’s poetry keyed to his paintings -- They are Where I Waited; From the Other Side: Henriette Delille; migrare, and Until We Talk.