Bill Bate's current range of available paintings & commissioned original artwork is available from us on application; he remains a substantially in demand artist here in the UK. Please enquire as to prices & lead times.
Born in Liverpool in 1962, artist Bill Bate always showed signs of what was to become his professional career as an artist from a very young age. With a keen interes
Bill Bate's current range of available paintings & commissioned original artwork is available from us on application; he remains a substantially in demand artist here in the UK. Please enquire as to prices & lead times.
Born in Liverpool in 1962, artist Bill Bate always showed signs of what was to become his professional career as an artist from a very young age. With a keen interest in painting, Bate knew that after secondary school (Quarry Bank), this was the path he was going to pursue and so embarked at Liverpool Polytechnic to study an Art Foundation course.
After completing his course, Bate went onto further art studies at the Central School of Art and Design in London, in a Fine Arts Degree which saw him successfully graduated in 1984. What this degree taught him was the drive to experiment and not to be so formatted and use to a particular way of working. This now meant that Bate was able to develop certain skills he had and push them to the next level, particularly in the field of abstract figurative work.
Taking on all of his new found skills, which were inspired and encourage by his tutors, who they themselves were well established artists and so provided the knowledge, skills and references needed to pass onto Bate in order for him to pursue a well established career as a painter. This has since led to the numerous flourishing exhibitions in London and in recent years in galleries throughout the UK.
Always showing a keen fascination in figurative subjects and how certain lights fall upon his forms, in more recent images this has been through painting water, Bates seeks inspiration from Rothko, Bacon, Alma Tadema, Caravaggio and Klimt and Rothko's influence is shown through the mood and atmosphere he is able to create with his palette.
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