Bill Donnelly is a suburban Trenton native currently living in Southampton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Mercer County Community College with an associates degree in visual arts and studied graphic design, illustration, and painting at the School of Visual Arts. As principal of WT Design since 1990, he specialized in book design for several major medical publishers, and provided graphic design services for various corporate and commercial clients.

His drawings and paintings have been exhibited in regional art exhibitions and have received several awards, most notably from Phillips Mill Juried Art Show, the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion, the Cheltenham Art Center, and the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Bucks County.

His work is comprised of images inspired by the surrounding environment, with the goal of creating pictures that excite his artistic sensibility by the shapes, patterns, colors, or textures that occur when viewed closely. A graphic composition results from focusing on a small area,  offering the viewer a chance to appreciate it not only for the thing that it is, but for whatever they might see it as. 
His process includes taking several photographs of a subject, often returning at various times of the day to observe different lighting situations. The photograh is used as a reference, and his medium is wax crayon on paper, applied with randomly shaped strokes in multiple layers of color.