William Meire was born September 02, 1966 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  He showed a keen interest in art expression at a very early age filling old textbooks and notebooks from his school days from cover to cover with images that filled his mind. After completing his education, he began his travels around the world and has now visited 49 countries studying the many art forms that each unique locale has to offer.

A perpetual student of Art, William paints directly from life whenever possible as he believes that direct life painting is the greatest way to learn.  He also studies at the most substantial museums in Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Latin America to continually increase his skills. He makes these study trips to absorb the lessons of the greatest painters of all time and to push his own art further and further as a result.

William has worked in many artistic mediums over the years including, watercolour, airbrush, acrylic, conte, pastel and, the most challenging and rewarding of all mediums; oil. His current works are exclusively in Oil and he spends many hours a day painting from life or working in his Washington State studio experimenting with the various tools of the trade and their effect upon one another.

William's works are included in numerous private and corporate collections around the world.  Collectors in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Argentina, Uraguay, Australia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Japan, China, England, France, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and New Zealand own William Meire Original artwork.  William has shown throughout North America and currently shows in Point Roberts, Washington, USA.