It’s weather conditions that we see in
Williams work. The paintings featured in
this Tubes landscape issue are created
on card and canvas and vary in sizes from
460mm x 460mm to 250mm x 250mm.
Tubes makes a point about scale of work
in almost every issue published
This is because it is the scale that
determines the value of the work, not in
monetary terms, but in the effect
the work has on the viewer.
In this case, what a wondrous thing it
would be to see just one of these paintings
at least three times their current size.
Tubes feels the artists work is some of
the best atmospheric paintings it has
published for some time and would
love to feature Bill with a more in depth
look at his Art.
painting below:
Lady Tower Fife Coast
250mm x 250 mm (11 inches x 11inches)
oil pigments on card.
painting above: Below Pen Y Ghent 300mm x300 mm (12 inches x 12 inches) oil
pigments on card. Private collection New York.
“My love of art began at an early stage
when my father would take me to
Kelvingrove museum & art gallery on
a Sunday as nothing else was opened
in those days, inside I would run around
looking at the suits of armour and stuffed
animals, but when I got upstairs
to the art gallery I stopped running around
and started to look close at the art
works, colour, tones and textures
is what I liked, subject matter never
counted in those days.
The vivid blues and carmines of
renaissance works to the tones and
shadows of Dali’s Christ of Saint John of
the Cross, from those early days art is
always been an everyday part of me .
My work at present, which is still a journey
into the unknown. Are mostly landscape
paintings of Northern England,
with some in Norfolk and Scotland.
“..I try to capture the beauty and
turbulence of nature of the land and sea (the sublime) in my works.
Most of my paint I hand grind myself as I feel it get you closer to the ground where it came from, so when
I grind lapis lazuli it takes me back to my childhood and those days looking up
to a renaissance Madonna with her blue gown.”