About The Artist

Philip Hone Williams graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in coordination with the Grad. School of Fine Arts at the University of PA. After painting commissioned portraits for several years, he became involved with sound as an expressive medium. To support that interest, he freelanced for 12 years as a location sound engineer in the film industry. Traveled the world on hundreds of jobs and collected thousands of sound effects for his personal library/palette of sounds. In the early 80s he turned to the new desk-top computers to get a better handle on his library and became so involved with the computers and programming, he retired from the sound business and became a freelance computer programmer. In the early '90's when microcomputers and the graphics software began showing promise as creative tools for the visual arts, over a several year period, he morphed from programming to freelance digital illustration. In 2000 he completely retired from computer programming and became a full time illustrator. Then in November 2006, he travelled full circle and started fine art oil painting again. His work can be seen online at http://HonePie.com.