William Tillyer: The Golden Striker and Esk Paintings 

William Tillyer turned 80 this year. To mark the occasion, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery is serving up a hefty helping of his recent work, which fuses the luscious paint handling of the British landscape tradition with this year’s must-have set of pictorial conventions: hard-edged abstraction. ‘The Golden Striker’ (2018) takes the painterly materiality of Constable and Turner and atomises it across a picture plane of plastic mesh, which acts as both surface and void; resulting in a strange sort of pixelation that sets thickly-painted passages adrift over arcs and squares of enigmatic, half-hidden geometry…

Exhibition runs until December 21st 2018.