William Lonsdale is an artist with well over 80 years of creative expression behind him. His artistic style and crafted skills have developed, changed and evolved in response to the wide variety environments and societies to which he has been exposed and reflected in his diverse body of work for you to enjoy.

The one continuing thread that defines his work is his deep rooted desire to translate the people, places and events he has seen, and known, into artistically recorded impressions of their lived experience. Above all William's art tells stories about the human condition and, in particular, the stories of those who have lived worked and died in the mill towns of East Lancashire.

In reaching out to craft these narratives William has turned to oils, watercolour, gouache, pencil and clay to make his vision. He moved between images which are based in reality to imagined scenes; with draughtsmanship skills to abstract gestural techniques but, always with outstanding application of the chosen technique to bring us to his vision.

Driven to art at an unusually early age, William progressed to be trained locally at Nelson school of Art, followed by Lancaster & Morecambe College of Arts & Crafts and finally at the Royal College of Art.  William's art has firm foundations in principled rigorous discipline. Real life observation coupled with mastery of the medium. What he was taught he brought to his daily struggle to capture images that would immortalise the world he knew.