Walter Bingham began drawing at the age of twelve. A native of Greenville, Ohio, he began winning first place ribbons for his work in the Darke County fairs.

            "I never really liked working in color," he says of his early black & white works in pen and ink. But anyone who has seen The Rainbow Collection, a series of colorful oils on canvas, knows the extent to which that changed, and the distinctive style Bingham has developed over the years.

            His formal training didn't begin until after four years with the U.S. Navy and a tour of Asia.  He enrolled at Wright Sate University to pursue his dream of becoming a fine arts Artist. Though his earliest pieces were delicate drawings, his interest soon turned to oils. Bingham's goals were those of the typical "starving artist"; to support his dream any way he could while accumulating a body of work which would someday be exhibited and sold in a gallery.

            Bingham's dream was cut short by a tumor on the Trigeminal nerve of his brain. He was no longer able to execute the finite detailing that his art training had provided. After a successful removal of the tumor in 1983, Mr. Bingham went to work for Corning Glass in Greenville, Ohio, to pay for the portion of medical expenses not covered by insurance.

            He married in 1985 and later continued his art education at Sinclair College to redevelop his fine arts skills and learn graphic arts. Unable to afford the wage cut it would have taken to devote time to a new career, Bingham remained at Corning for 16 years, even after his divorce in '91.

            When he met his business partner, a former casting associate at Disney, in 1999, Michael Bingham had not painted anything in 16 years. Encouraged by his new friend's enthusiasm for his work, Bingham retired from Corning and began painting while the two put together the plans for a mutual dream; a small piano bar with a baby grand and an art gallery where Bingham could exhibit his own work.

            In July 2002, in just three years time, he had accrued enough work to supply CHARLEY'S Web with 20 of the 31 pieces that graced the walls of the intimate and elegant little club.

            Not only had Bingham regained the fine detailing needed for artwork, but in those three years since the club was opened, he had sold original paintings to visiting bank CEO's from San Francisco, Gallery owners in Dallas, and airline execs from Laguna Beach, California. Nine of his pieces have gone into reproduction sales, and the tabletops he painted in person every Wednesday evening at Charley's Web, are still backed up in commissions through May of 2008.

             The Gallery/Club had not only been a dream come true for Bingham, it was a labor of love and a testimony to his creativity, friendship and perseverance.     

            With his work now hanging coast to coast from Galleries in L.A. to private collections in Florida, Walter Bingham took a faculty position at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio, where two of his largest pieces, both twelve by eight foot oil paintings, grace the outside entrance to a building at the corners of Ludlow and Main Streets.

            “I paint in oils. I use what I have learned through study and practice about applying this medium to empty canvasses. When I have satisfied myself technically, I present them to the world. When someone else “connects” with my work, finds meaning , or is otherwise moved, I know I have connected to a common unity, spiritually. The fact that any given piece touches or inspires another, in their own personal way, IS the “meaning” behind my work...we connect. And for as long as it moves them, we remain connected. Then I paint again. And again. And again...”

             Bingham now resides in Los Angeles, California. He is the owner of Walter Bingham's Mobile Art Gallery and is dedicated to painting full time.