Vivienne Williams

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    Vivienne Williams

    "My subject matter is still life - vessels, flowers and fruit. I paint everything from my mind, my imagination and memory, preferring a flattened perspective with simplified forms. There is an emotional significance invested in the objects by returning to them again and again - like working a seam, one painting leads on to the next."

    Colour, form and texture matter equally to Vivienne. Elements are re-arranged and repainted many times, balancing what to keep and lose, until paper takes on the feel and weight of old leather, worked, scratched, sanded, stained. A painting may emerge at any moment; if true, it records Vivienne's state of mind, astonishing her when the battle resolves into calm.
    Born in Swansea in 1955, Vivienne studied English Literature at Reading University, with a 1978 Masters in The Literary Response to the Visual Arts, then spent five years abroad teaching English in Venice and Padua and working in a Sydney gallery, where she first sold her work. She returned to the UK in 1983 for seven years in a Buddhist Community, becoming a full-time painter in Wales in 1990. Early work was colourful, mostly flowers; for twenty years she has focused on still life, her palette evolving, her style distinctive. She has exhibited widely, was elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy in 2017, her work held in public and private collections in the UK and abroad.

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