A resident of both Scottsdale, Arizona and Jackson, Wyoming, Bill Freeman was raised by artist parents. For twelve years, he was a cowboy and then fought forest fires for the U.S. Forest Service, worked as a trail guide and helped conduct biological field research for the Arizona Game and Fish Department which began publishing his western sketches. As a full time artist, he depicts the landscape, western genre and restores and makes replicas of ancient Indian pots.

The best of both worlds is one way to describe Bill Freeman's life because he lived in warm Scottsdale, Arizona during the winter months but moved to his other home in Jackson, Wyoming when summer comes. In both places, he painted and sculpted, transferring to canvas or me...