Bill’s work once teased with what he termed ‘easy beauty’ – large brightly-coloured works made without concern for any of the historic tenets of painting. For example “Rococozenism” exhibition 2009 and “Chance Upon Nothing” exhibition 2013, MARS Gallery, Melbourne. Here, the immediately gratifying elements have been stripped away. Stripped back to the line. The line here as the mediative present, the process, and the metaphor – combined with an entirely new element, poetic lines.