'Untitled'; etching printed in colours, signed and numbered 21/60 in pencil.

William Tillyer studied art in his home town from 1956-9, moving south to London in the 1960s to study at the Slade School of Art. Following his time at the Slade, Tillyer took up a French Government Scholarship to study gravure under Stanley William Hayter, at Atelier 17 in Paris.  In the 1970s, Tillyer pursued print-making with renewed vigour. He won international acclaim at the Second International Print Bienalle in Kraków. With these prints Tillyer used a variety of techniques, from etching to five tone screenprinting, to create lattices and landscapes which Pat Gilmour, head of the Tate's Print Department, termed, 'a cool and unpeopled world' in which to reflect the surrounding flux of nature'.  In this print we see man's world interacting with nature: abandoned structure; nature dominating.