William Staples

  • William Staples draws on images from childhood in 1970s and 80s as well as art historical imagery, journeying to libraries and scouring the internet for the pictures, drawing and then painting them with a reductive or sentimentally codified manner, where memories fuse with legacies of cultural imagery. In his work, particularly landscapes, colors—their richness or opacity, fading or cleanliness—lines—their looseness or directionality—and space—its constriction or seemingly infinite depth—all allow the imagination to construct an image from these clues.
  • Exhibitions
  • Works
    • William Staples, Bird, 2024
      William Staples
      Bird, 2024
      Acrylic, oil and charcoal on canvas
      8 x 10 inches
    • William Staples, Woods, 2023
      William Staples
      Woods, 2023
      Oil and sawdust on canvas
      10 x 12 inches
    • William Staples, Two Trees, 2022-24
      William Staples
      Two Trees, 2022-24
      Oil, bark, sawdust and string on canvas
      12 x 10 inches
    • William Staples, Landscape, 2022
      William Staples
      Landscape, 2022
      Oil, acrylic, charcoal and sand on canvas
      12 x 14 inches
    • William Staples, Moose, 2022
      William Staples
      Moose, 2022
      Oil and sawdust on canvas
      11 x 14 inches
    • William Staples, Tree, 2022
      William Staples
      Tree, 2022
      Oil and sawdust on canvas
      32 x 17 inches