William Wolk, born in 1951 in Miami, Florida, exhibited his fascination for drawing at a very early age. By age eight, he was drawing charcoal portraits free hand and by age nine he had acquired his first oil painting set and easel. His first professional exhibit was at age sixteen in the fourth annual Coconut Grove Art Festival where, from his street display, he sold his first nine paintings. At age nineteen, after spending a year in self-study in Florence, Italy, he returned to Miami and had his first one-man-show at The Vasili Gallery in Coral Gables, Florida. The art of William Wolk has been shown continuously since 1984 at his namesake gallery at The Greenbrier, a sixty-five hundred-acre resort nestled in the mountains of West Virginia at White Sulphur Springs.