That is what I see in your art.

Savitri Shivani

Elemental Energy

Bill Rishel's paintings burst with light and patterns we have never seen, yet know intimately. Rivers of color pulse like the blood in our arteries or the sap in mangrove roots twisting to the sea floor. We sense the convoluted patterns on the backs of loggerhead turtles not seen but felt as dim shadows moving below vision.

Waves of color create textures that escape from the two dimensional canvas to massage our ancient limbic brains that remember when we breathed underwater. There is something of the time before man in these paintings, some elemental energy born of light and breath, this energy rolling down through the ages that our souls recognize but cannot name.

- Zen Oleary

A Path to Meditation

Where William Rishel goes when he is painting is a place so familiar it feels somehow he copied my mind when I was not looking, primordial investigations of life downloaded onto his paintings as I enviously wished I had done myself. His "local universes" stay respectfully independent of each other on the same plane, respecting and explaining themselves as individually as possible. The bewildering effect of his paintings maybe due to diffracting abundances of these separate universes all wrapped on a single work.

All this aside, if you really want to have fun with his paintings go closer and have a look. There you will see mental landscapes that remarkably resembles your own. At times you may think of his art as an eye candy or a pleasant journey , but what it really is, is an invitation for a path to meditation. A place to go where inner space becomes a haven.

- Masso Salmassi

Chaotic Order

Reminds you of the artistry of the chaotic order of eclectic gases inside the Jovian giant. To actually have a window with a view of a piece of another planet

- T. Y.

Transcendental Realism

The stunningly real and yet unworldly quality of William Rishel's artwork is the outcome of over two decades of intense research and experimentation by the artist in watercolor and acrylic media. The paintings have incredibly fine detail, even under a magnifying glass. And yet there is no evidence of any brush strokes by the artist. The artist considers Nature as the Supreme Artist and himself as a mere vehicle of Her profound and mysterious expression. He considers his techniques as in effect a Magical Photolab in which he captures the exquisite intricacies of Nature's dance.

-From a description of the Art Nova Transcendental Realism card series