work – William Bickerstaff

In my work I try to capture the intensity of being in the landscape around Cambridge, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.

Its scale and emptiness can be beautiful and benign, but hurrying to get out of a wood as darkness falls, or the rapture of being immersed in trees, fields or sky can be a more sublime experience, evoking contemplation, deep spirituality and even terror. It is the overwhelming feeling of these moments that I try to communicate.

Being open to its bleak power and scale has become a way to explore an inscape of experiences, from anxiety and depression to redemption and healing.

2023

Paintings on canvas are gouache on linen. Colour images are gouache or linocut. Black and white images are fine pen and printing ink. Images not on canvas are on cartridge paper.

Daemon
Original canvas: 270 x 410mm

Gate
Original canvas: 270 x 410mm

Path II
700 x 910mm
Original available (unframed)

Kissing Yews
700 x 910mm
Original available (unframed)

At My Side
700 x 910mm
Original available (unframed)

Walk Beside Me
390 x 560mm
Original available (unframed)

Figure on Long Lane Red
360 x 480mm
Original available (unframed)

Figure on Long Lane Ochre
Original: 360 x 480mm
Framed: 560 x 760mm

Figure on Long Lane Blue
360 x 480mm
Original available (unframed)

Stack
900 x 600mm
Original available (unframed)

2022

Black and white images are fine pen and printing ink. Colour images are linocut and fine pen. All images are on cartridge paper.

Stile II
380 x 480mm
Original available (unframed)

Orange Stile II
Original: 270 x 340mm
Framed: 450 x 550mm

Red Stile II
270 x 340mm
Original available (unframed)

Figure on Long Lane
Original: 600 x 800mm
Framed: 800 x 1100mm
Original available (framed)

Ghost Tree
Original: 600 x 800mm
Framed: 800 x 1100mm
Original available (framed)

Wave
Original: 600 x 800mm
Original available (unframed)

Forest IV
Original: 600 x 800mm
Framed: 800 x 1100mm
Original SOLD

From Rivey Hill
Original: 600 x 800mm
Original available (unframed)

Field
Original: 600 x 800mm
Original available (unframed)

2021

Black and white images are fine pen. Colour images are gouche. All images are on on cartridge paper.

Forest I
Original: 250 x 600mm
Original SOLD
Limited edition prints x 5 SOLD

Forest II
Original: 300 x 450mm
Original available (unframed)

Forest III
Original: 250 x 650mm
Original SOLD
Limited edition prints x 5 SOLD

Black Cairn
Original: 594 x 594mm
Original available (unframed)

Rocks I-16, Skye
Original: 594 x 594mm
Original available (unframed)

Rock I, Skye
Original: 570 x 820mm
Original available (unframed)

Rock II, Skye
Original: 570 x 820mm
Original available (unframed)

2020

Black and white images are fine pen and printing ink. Colour images are acrylic, chalk, pencil and fine pen; or gouache. All images are on cartridge paper.