Bill Schmidt is a landscape painter, favoring the maritime views of the Chesapeake Bay (Annapolis) and the New England harbor towns of Rockport and Gloucester, also the rolling countryside and small towns of Western Maryland. A plein-air oil painter, he calls himself an “American Impressionist,” painting with the heightened awareness of color and light found in the tradition of the French and American Impressionists.

Bill’s paintings are realistic but with a ‘painterly looseness’. “I select certain elements to heighten and others to play down, carefully planning each painting to capture the nuances of light and color that let us see nature through the artist's eyes. I hope that I do convey the immediacy and vibrancy of the outdoors in my paintings. I’m not out to create a specific mood. I’m simply painting the mood that exists.”  At carmen's, Bill specializes in local and regional landscapes from around Solomons and the Chespeake Bay, but throws a few other selections into the mix to keep it interesting.  carmen's gallery was the top selling gallery for Schmidt in 2009!