Bill's artistic process resembles a playful game of connecting dots and filling colours, where soft and hard edges of form rhyme along the journey. Through drawing, Bill navigates the essence of materials, whether it's a chunky base of wood or a floating silk curtain, continuously refining and reimagining their potential. Experimentation and failure are embraced as integral to artistic evolution, leading to transformations that may elicit laughter or emotional reactions, guiding Bill's direction with love and care through craft and labour.

 

Bill teaches themselves new methods along the way, expanding their repertoire in a naive yet enriching exploration of scavenging, making, and mending. The process brings personal satisfaction and comfort through moments of simple beauty, saturating the page with marks and muscling materials.

 

Central to Bill's practice is a reverence for the innate qualities of materials, with paintings often beginning as bare examples of process. Tactile experimentation, including tearing, cutting, and stitching surfaces, explores the dichotomy of destruction and reconstruction, embracing imperfections. Techniques such as bleeding and bleaching infuse an ethereal quality into the work.

 

Cross-pollinating different painting, printing, and collage methods is fundamental to Bill's exploration of play and pruning as attitudes within creation. Trusting in chance combinations and intuitively reading emotional undercurrents, imagery may exist abstractly or hover within Bill's imagination, guided by rhythmic feeling and tactile sensations.

 

Bill's mark-making, reminiscent of hair, bricks, and smoke, evokes dynamic motion and organic evolution. Collaged scraps and constructed items enrich the visual narrative, revealing embedded shapes and forms that direct the work towards figurative details and patterns within visually interwoven textures. This process often shapes animals or landscapes, symbolically tied to identity yet known or unknown to Bill.