**The extraordinary paintings and watercolors of this contemporary
British abstract artist, deeply influenced by the romantic English
landscape tradition of Constable and Turner.
**
This is the first major look at the work of the renowned yet intensely
private and reclusive artist William Tillyer (b. 1938), best known for
his abstract oil paintings, watercolors, and prints. Tillyer's skill and
hugely varied body of work make him one of Britain's most respected
artists, in the same generation as Lucian Freud and David Hockney.
Tillyer is finally getting the recognition he deserves.
While Tillyer's paintings are largely abstract, they are based on the
landscape of North Yorkshire, where he has lived and worked for most of
his life. The book covers Tillyer's experiments with nontraditional
materials and techniques--his 3D panels, cut canvases, constructed works
with found objects, printmaking with a wide range of processes, and
paintings on wire mesh.