William Tillyer Biography

Biography Public Collections Solo Exhibitions

2018	The Golden Striker
	The Esk Paintings
	Completed the 'A Rebours' print folio
2006	"The Revisionist Wire Works" paintings
	Invited to work at Castillo de Santa Catalina studios Cadiz, Spain.
2005	Working on 'Encounter in a Third Style' series of wire mesh paintings and 'The Percival David Watercolours'.
	Bernard Jacobson publishes a series of digital prints The Arcadian Quest Quartet.
	Work begins on a three-dimensional multiple 'The Charterhouse Equation'
	Commissioned to design a stained glass window for Arts and Crafts church at Gunnerton, Northumberland.
2004	Design etched glass vase "The Prague Vase"
2003	Invited to Tobago, working on the watercolour series 'In the South'.
2002	'Hardware: Variations on a Theme of Encounter' an exhibition and book of the same title.
2001	In New York State working on 'The Bedford Hills Watercolours' and a series of castings in silver and bronze at Polich Artworks Foundry New York.
	Invited to work in Co. Kerry Ireland at Cill Rialaig Project. "The Age of Anxiety Watercolours"
2000	Living and working in North Yorkshire 'The Encounter Works' of painted constructs.
	Publication of "Against the Grain" a major monograph by Norbert Lynton.
1998	In North Yorkshire working on 'The Paris Fluorescent Paintings'.
	Short-listed for the Jerwood Prize.
1997	Living and working in Paris on the 'Paris Interior Series'
1995	Working in North Yorkshire on 'The Fluxion Paintings'
1994	Travelled to Italy visiting Florence Ravenna and Mantua Worked on 'The Black Haven Paintings'.
1993	Visited Pennsylvania to make a series of watercolours based on Frank Lloyd Wright house 'Falling Water'. Also visited Cooperstown, Lake Otsego and the James Fenimore Cooper collection of Native American artifacts.
	Worked on 'The Katchina Paintings'.
1992	Invited with a group of artists to visit Ireland to make a series of drawings at the Lake Isle of Innisfree to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Yeats.
1990	Made the 'Living in Arcadia' paintings.
	Invited to work with Mixographia in Los Angeles on large scale relief prints. Travelled through California and Arizona.
	Commissioned to make the painting for Timberlake Wertenbaker Play 'Three Birds Alighting on a Field' at the Royal Court. Commission for the Broadgate Development London 'The Mechanics Institute II' painting.
1989	Worked on a ceramics with The Fulham Pottery.
1987	Moved to Westwood Studios in North Yorkshire, working on 'The Westwood Paintings'.
1984	Travelled extensively through South Western America making drawings 'The Arizona By-Ways' and 'The Los Angeles By-Ways'. Visited the John Wayne collection of Kachinas and The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Taliesin, Phoenix.
1983	Travelled through France Switzerland and Italy working on 'The Grand Tour' watercolour series.
1981	Appointed Artist in Residence at Melbourne University, Australia .Visited Sydney, Adelaide and The Simpson Desert. Painted the Open Mesh canvases.
1980	Returned to live and work in North Yorkshire.
1978	Moved to Wiltshire and started working on the wire mesh/collage paintings.
1977	Spent time working in Sweden prior to his Gothenburg exhibition.
1975	Travelled to Utrecht for a retrospective exhibition of his work at The Museum of Contemporary Art.
	Moved to Providence, Rhode Island, USA as visiting Professor at Brown University. Travelled through the Eastern States.
1974	Visit to New York for the opening of his first one-man exhibition there.
	Visit to Los Angeles to work at Cirus Editions on 'The Bel Air Lithographs' .
	Moved into London Bridge studio working on "The Florist Paintings" and with Advanced Graphics on a portfolio of prints "A Furnished Landscape".
	Started work on illustrations for 'A Rebours' by J.K. Huysmans.
	Spent the summer in Verona working on his first 'Hotel Room watercolours'.
1970	Visiting Lecturer Watford School of Art.
1968	Son York born.
1967	Daughter Kim born.
1964	Visiting Lecturer Bath Academy of Art.
	Visiting Lecturer Central School of Art.
1963	Returned to London and married Judith Jackson.
	Started part-time work at Chelsea School of Art, London
	Taught etching at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham
1962	Made first woodcut prints in Edinburgh. Awarded French Government Scholarship to study gravure under William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris.
1960	Studied painting under William Coldstream and etching under Anthony Gross at the Slade School, London.
1958	Visited Paris for the opening of the Unesco Building and the inaugural exhibition.
1956	Studied painting at Middlesbrough College of Art.
1938	Born Middlesbrough, Yorkshire