Bill Owen has lived the cowboy experience first hand, being the son of a cowboy who plyed his trade in the early 1900's. This early influence has shaped Bill's desire to keep alive the spirit of the West in his paintings and sculpture. Owen states that his two desires in life came together for him early in life; to be a cowboy and an artist. Like most artists, he can't remember a time when he wasn't drawing. A natural talent, Bill began developing and refining his skills working on ranches after high school as a cowboy. It is these early experiences that have served him well in his career as an artist and led to his work being shown in galleries in the late sixties. In 1973, Bill's work reached such widespread acclaim that he was elected as a member into the Cowboy Artists of America. In addition, he also became a member of the equally prestigious Prix de West Art Show and Sale held at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City. Evident in his art is a strong focus on tightly rendered authentic details coupled with a strong sense of action. He accurately portrays the modern day Cowboy and imbues him with a sense of discipline, determination, and resoluteness of purpose that is seen in few other Western painters and sculptors. In his esteemed career, Owen has won a combined total of 31 medals at the Cowboy Artists of America Annual Show and Sale. Owen's philosophy can best be summed up in the following statement from the Cowboy Artists of America book "…A true piece of art does come from inside. It's not your fingertips that you're putting down on canvas, but it comes from your heart, from the inner most being of you."

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