Plank, Bill

Bill Plank earned his associates degree in visual arts from Mercer County Community College and his bachelor's degree in art education from Trenton State. He recently retired from teaching after 25 years to form his own business, Plank Art Designs. Throughout his years of teaching, Plank continued to produce and exhibit paintings at such venues as the Education Testing Service in Princeton and Capitol Health System's Mercer Hospital Campus. His landscapes are influenced by artists such as the romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, Andrew & James Wyeth, and the contemporary illustrator/landscape painter Philip Travers.

Plank recently won a purchase award at the Mercer County Artists 2011 Exhibit for his seascape titled Exiles. The painting is now part of the permanent collection of the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Art Collection.