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Bernard Jacobson Gallery will present a selection of still lifes by the eminent British artist William Tillyer. This exhibition examines the development of the still life throughout the course of Tillyer’s career and unfolds through a variety of media, including watercolours, prints, oils, acrylics, and the artist’s signature wire mesh, which he incorporated into his work as early as the 1970s. Though the still life is a traditional subject matter, Tillyer’s still lifes are unique for their radical combination of figuration and abstraction, reality and illusion – techniques inspired by Paul …