Bill Bone lives and works in Cardiff, Wales and specialises in portraiture. His paintings are prepared by dripping wax onto wood panels to create a sensual and topographical surface upon which an accumulation of small, measured pieces of colour are built up over time which can be likened to both pixels and pointillism. Colours are notated slowly through repeated momentary glances at digital images blown up to a pixelated abstraction on a screen.
He has appeared on season 2 of Sky Art’s Portrait Artist of the Year, winning the Cardiff heat with his painting of Ade Adepitan and painted a double portrait of Richard Dawkins and Sally Hitcher at the semi-final at the Royal Academy in London. He also appeared on season 3 and again became a finalist in his heat with his portrait of Sue Perkins.
“Bill Bone’s portraits are a beautiful thing to behold, with their lumpy waxen surface coagulated with a myriad of delicate specks of paint and vibrant colours. The result is an object that is uneven and encrusted like an archaeological find but also a radiant image.” Tai Shan Schierenberg
Bill Bone Art 