William Gerrish is a multidisciplinary artist working in Houston, Texas. 

Recent works focus on telling stories and capturing memories. These "recollections" are composed of raw materials and once abandoned personal effects. Aged color and trace impressions on the surfaces reveal truths created by time, nature and the hands of those from the past. The cigar boxes used in these works were my father’s. The marks left on the inside of each cigar box are made by my father as each object was placed in the box year after year. My intent with these works is to evoke a sense of nostalgia. These found objects are rescued from oblivion and given a new life.

Reclaimed materials and found objects include: cigar boxes, covers & pages from old books, papers, letters, old painted wood, linoleum, brass tubing, carpet tacks, fishing logs, tackle & lures, stones, the artist’s blood, a bird’s nest, coins & paper money,
shark teeth, wooden rulers, reclaimed wood.

"I honor the practice of truth to material,
recognizing and accepting unrefined beauty,
trusting my artistic intuition."