About the Artist
Bill Platts, or Plattsy to those who know him, has spent over 35 years exploring how light, texture and the natural world speak to one another. An Exhibiting Member of the Welland Valley Art Society, he has shown work at Peterborough Cathedral, Peterborough Museum, St Guthlac’s Church in Market Deeping, and most recently at Stamford Arts Centre, where he has become a familiar presence.
Bill works across oil on board, acrylics, watercolour and gouache, moving freely between realism, impressionism and bold, character-driven observation. A keen photographer too, he often weaves the two disciplines together, the camera sharpening his eye, the brush interpreting what the lens captured.
Echoes of the Wild — Part 2 marks a pivotal moment. Continuing in the Stamford Arts Annex, this year’s exhibition is more intimate in scale yet deeper in focus, building naturally on last year’s collection. Here, Bill moves from sweeping, picture‑perfect landscapes such as The Enchanted Wood toward the quieter territory, capturing the mirrored symmetry of Great Tit’s in Reflections, or the jewel‑like presence of the Winter Robin.
Each piece documents a small but potent drama, the kind most of us would pass by without notice. Together, the works invite you to pause, to look more closely, and to absorb the subtle echoes of the wild that surround us every day. Whatever the medium, Bill remains a storyteller at heart, drawn again and again to the grace and stubborn personality of the British countryside.