Description: The website of London based artist William (Bill) Bramer
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The complexity of the drawing is central to my creative expression and this has been apparent in the consistency of the form of expression throughout my creative work. The most important and profound event for me as an artist has been the opportunity over the years to live and work in Paris. Working in Paris at L’Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut enabled me to utilise the etching print-making facilities available. Having access to the largest printing press there, together with technical support, allowed me to
A studio in St Ives, Cornwall allowed me to be surrounded by a very different environment - the changing and unique quality of light, and the forces of the Atlantic Ocean close by the studio. I translated the visual effect into the work produced there, and it still influences me.
Drawing has been a central means of expression, but the evidence of a 3-dimensional quality portrays my earlier sculptural involvement establishing form in space.