Bill Kneale
Holywell, Flintshire, North Wales, United Kingdom
I am a figurative, impressionist artist who has always painted in polymers first PVA, now acrylic. My interests are in 'People and Places', land/seascapes, beach environments and sea birds. Acrylics allow me scope of techniques from flow formula spraying of textures to knifed on Systems3. I paint on flat and built up board and paper. Acrylic medium is always added to the water, I don't know when I may thin right down to a wash and need the binding medium.
Acrylics is a superb, no nonsense medium making possible flat intuitive on site sketching and refined studio controlled techniques. I am interested in, observe and paint impressions of atmospheric landscapes and seascapes with strong elements of design, beach environments and people and places they visit. I paint in a figurative way about what I see. My medium is acrylic, I enjoy its versatility and clean richness of colour; painting outdoors one has to work with its quick drying characteristic which adds freshness and vitality.
Combinations of sky, land and water sometimes interwoven, other times apart but never unrelated. Varying paint applications help express particular characteristics of what I am seeing, painting both on site and in my studio. Marks, movements, colours and textures build the impression.
Works Exhibited
- The Crypt (former Mariners) Gallery, 2012:
- Cat No 56: "Snowdonia Winter 1" 67.5x87.5cms
Prizewinner: NAPA ADRIAN HENRI MEMORIAL AWARD - Cat No 57: "Snowdonia Winter 2" 67.5x87.5cms
- Cat No 58: "Snowdonia Winter 3" 67.5x87.5cms
- Cat No 59: "Snowdonia Winter 4" 67.5x87.5cms
- Cat No 56: "Snowdonia Winter 1" 67.5x87.5cms
- The Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, 2011:
- Cat No 73: "Aerial View of the Clwydians I" 56x76cms
- The Crypt (former Mariners) Gallery, 2010:
- Cat No 59: "Coed Allt y Tywod - Looking In" 70 x 70 cms
- Cat No 60: "Coed Allt y Tywod - Looking Out" 70 x 90 cms
- View Two Gallery Liverpool, 2009:
- Cat No 48: "Dee Estuary Saltmarsh - Edge" 68 x 88
Prizewinner: THE PRESIDENT'S PRIZE - Cat No 49: "Dee Estuary Saltmarsh - Tilt" 88 x 68
- Cat No 50: "Dee Estuary Saltmarsh - Wind" 68 x 88
- Cat No 51: "Dee Estuary Saltmarsh - Channel" 68 x 88
- Cat No 52: "Dee Estuary Saltmarsh - Boat" 88 x 68
- Cat No 48: "Dee Estuary Saltmarsh - Edge" 68 x 88
- Obsidian Art, 2008:
- Cat No 50: "Moel Famau Top Afar" 38 x 48
Prizewinner: NAPA President's Prize 2008 - Cat No 51: "Moel Famau Slopes" 38 x 48 cms
- Cat No 52: "Devon Slopes" 38 x 48 cms
- Cat No 53: "Devon Field" 48 x 38 cms
- Cat No 54: "Devon Ridge" 48 x 38 cms
- Cat No 50: "Moel Famau Top Afar" 38 x 48
- The Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, 2004:
- Cat No 109: "Glasgow Shipyard Workers 1" 58 x 78cms
- Cat No 111: "Glasgow Shipyard Workers 2" 58 x 78cms
- The Crypt (former Mariners) Gallery, 2003:
- Cat No 45: "Beach 2003 Sunglasses" 48 x 58cms
- The Crypt (former Mariners) Gallery, 2002:
- Cat No 36: "Beach 2002 Red Straw" 27.5 x 35cms
- Cat No 37: "Beach 2002 White Straw" 35 x 35cms














