1994 - Wilfred Owen Lithographs

In the early 1990s Bill experienced a period of being creatively listless. The last successful paintings which he completed had been the Conversation pieces and he found he was unable to find the necessary inspiration and drive which had always come so naturally to him. At the time this was diagnosed as depression, however by 1995 it was clear that this had been part of the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. 

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In an effort to give Bill some direction Chris Boïcos, his friend and gallerist, encouraged him to try producing a series of prints based upon the celebrated Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) poems on the horrors of the First World War. After experimenting with linocuts Bill settled on lithographs to be then hand coloured and published in a short book. Only ten prints, each in an edition of 20, were completed and the book was not completed. In 2018 Chris Boïcos published a limited edition book of the ten prints and the poems to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.