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A love of interesting surfaces and life's rich patina, which only arrives very gradually with age, is central to the making of Bill Hay's paintings. A deliberate layering and scumbling (pushing the half set paint about) has been employed to create the works, which in turn gives a sense of time and history slowly passing. Painted in gouache on paper, the works have been made in such a way that the resulting images are "often as much a surprise to the artist as they might be to the viewer." Chance certainly plays a...more