Bill Tierney Sculptor/painter Bill Tierney lives in Santa Barbara, California. After graduating from Montclair High School in the early 1960s, he attended the University of Virginia to become a doctor. He spent his college career skipping classes and hitchhiking up and down the East Coast. Tierney used his painting as a way to express those experiences. He states, “I used to wake up every day and ask myself, ‘Am I an artist?’”