MFPA - Artists

Bill Mooney was born on February 11th 1942 in Melbourne
Australia. A promising young athlete, Bill was paralized
from the shoulders down as the result of a diving accident at
the age of sixteen. He has been confined to a wheelchair
since that time.

Bill began painting in 1960 and spent about six month
tinting old etchings of Australia. He then had a very
successful exhibition of his work at the Melbourne
headquarters of a large banking company. Bill started
producing his own work in late 1961 and spent the next two
years working on exercises and general lessons given by
his teachers at the small art colony of Eltham outside
Melbourne. During this time he was accepted as a student
by the MFPA and later in 1963 became a full member.

In the same year Bill was married to Irene, a young Scottish
nurse at the hospital where he stayed. They set up home in
a suburb of Melbourne and have three children, now young
adults, who bring them much happiness. Since then Bill
has been painting full time, and over the years has exhibited
and sold paintings throughout the world. His paintings, in
oils and watercolours, are usually of Australian landscapes
or seascapes.

Bill takes a keen interest in world politics, all sports, and
loves to travel. He takes part in many Exhibitions and Art
Shows, winning the prestigious Hebe Ransford Landscape
Award at the Royal Melbourne Show in 1997. Being a
member of MFPA has given Bill financial security, the
opportunity to travel overseas and meet many interesting
people, and in spite of his accident he considers himself a
happy and fortunate man.