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NIGEL
WILLIAMS
Nigel Williams
has an MA in Fine Art and is a first-class honours graduate in painting and drawing. He is a lecturer in Fine Art at
Gorseinon College of Further Education and is an associate
Tutor at Swansea University within the Department of Continuing
Education where he teaches painting in oils. He has been
featured on HTV Primetime and his work has been shown on
S4C arts programmes. Nigel has work in collections in the
UK, Australia, Ireland and, more recently, Chicago in the
U.S.A.
The M.A. work
dealt with formal issues of the oil paint
and support within the heading of "Investigations into Visual Atomism", a line of enquiry that stems from Seurat and Pointillism and includes work by Roy Lichtenstein. The manner in which paint is applied creates
a wonderful array of marks and intersections between the
marks. In the case of palette knife painting this means
there are a series ridges and 'walls' between the strokes.
It is these areas that have potential to be explored further.
Nigel has exhibited
in many of the leading galleries in Wales and his first
two solo exhibitions sold out within days of opening. He
has recently been invited to exhibit at the 2005 Florence
Biennale of Painting and sculpture. Full list of exhibitions
is included below.
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FOR SALE - PLEASE NOTE: some colour variations may be present
due to limitations of reproduction on different monitors. |
This page contains some landscape paintings and drawings. |
If
you would like to view some of Nigel's recent MA explorations
of landscape please click here... |
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"Interior of the Guinness Factory, Dublin" 2006 (image size 28.5" x 21". 72 x 53cm) Original Watercolour.
Currently unframed 2007.
£1,750.
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A photograph of the painting, framed, hanging in situ' and ready to go...(plastic protector can be seen covering the black wood frame). |
Free Postage with this original painting (Guinness Factory).
Prints of the painting are available upon request. Please email nigel.williams@welshartsarchive.org.uk for details.
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"Worm's Head; Gower" oil on canvas 90cm x 90cm (35.5" x 35.5" unframed size) 2007.
This substantial painting has been produced using a painting knife (the texture is almost good enough to eat) and it is available for delivery.
£2,300 (framed to choice and delivered). |
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SPECIAL OFFER - "Plantasia"
1999 pencil and wash by Nigel Williams.
This drawing was
produced for, and exhibited in, the Wales Drawing Biennale
in 1999. This is the first time the woprk has been offered
for sale on-line. It was exhibited at the Glynn Vivian Gallery,
Swansea, Wrexham Art Centre, The Howard Gardens Gallery in
Cardiff and the Aberystwyth Art Centre. The drawing is framed
and mounted (as shown) and measures 34.5" x 27.25"
(actual drawing size = 27" x 20"). The drawing was
made from a series of sketches produced on location at Plantasia
in Swansea and has been painstakingly rendered over a period
of several months. The drawing was further exhibited in a
solo exhibiton of work in 2001 and was featured on S4C's Heno
programme. |
Detail of
the drawing...
"Plantasia"
is offered for sale at £800 (including delivery
to the UK. Import taxes apply to countries
outside the UK and quotation for shipping can be obtained
at request)
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"Illfracoombe" oil on canvas 14"x10"
SOLD
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"Rain over the Giant - Abercraf" Oil on board 16"x12"
SOLD
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"Rocks" Brecon Beacons
Pencil & wash 2004
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"Rocks" II Pencil & wash 2005
30" x 26.5" framed
SOLD |
"Above Craig Y Nos" 4' x 3'
Palette knife - Oil on canvas 2004
£2,000 (framed to purchaser's specification) |
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The
true dimension of a work are sometimes difficult to imagine.
Here you can see the size of the unframed painting set above
a fireplace and within the office.
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"Stream above Dan-yr-Ogof (Breconshire)" Oil
on stretched canvas
20" x 24" (unframed size)
SOLD
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"Landscape
has an important place within the canon of art history and should
never be relegated to the lower divisions of contemporary art
practice."
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"Skomer from Ramsey Sound"
by Nigel Williams. Oil on canvas board 16" x 12"
MMIV
SOLD
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Although I tend to work
with contemporary issues for the most part, I still also love to
paint landscapes. From rolling hills to single trees, my only guiding
criteria is a sense of personal meaning. Within this page I have
a number of paintings displayed from a recent series of work concentrating
upon the application of paint using a palette knife. Each painting
is richly coated in layers of buttery oil paint applied directly
from the tube. This method of working permits immediate response
to the subject matter and demands the eradication of superfluous
marks and overpainting.
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To
ignore the importance and influence of landscape drawing and
painting within art would be to dismiss the influence of great
artists, such as JMW Turner, John Constable, the Impressionists
and our own Sir Kyffin Williams RA as 'Sunday painters'.
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"Caldey Island from Penally"
by Nigel Williams. Oil on canvas board 16" x 12"
MMIV
SOLD
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"Pen-y-fan (Breconshire), from Penwyllt" by Nigel
Williams.
Oil on canvas board 24" x 18" (unframed size)
SOLD (private
collection)
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Landscape painting,
and palette knife painting, is an extremely liberating and
enjoyable experience. Oil paints provide a medium to suit
a vast array of styles and techniques, yet demands an understanding
of its properties, strengths and weaknesses.
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EXHIBITIONS
& EVENTS:
1991
- First solo exhibition; Swansea Valley
1991 - Featured HTV ‘PRIMETIME’ arts
television programme.
1994 - Second solo exhibition; Swansea Valley.
1994 - Illustrated ‘The First 100’ (Book).
1997 -‘Aspects of Wales (group exhibition)
Pontardawe Art Centre.
1999 - ‘Wales Drawing Biennale’ - Wrexham
Art Centre; Howard Gardens
Gallery, Cardiff; Glynn Vivian
Art Gallery, Swansea; Aberystwyth
Art Centre.
1999 - Ceri Richards Gallery, Taliesin Arts Centre,
Swansea.
1999 - ‘Watercolour Society of Wales’
Anniversary Exhibition, Newport Museum.
2000 - Washington Gallery, Penarth, Cardiff (Second
Year group exhibition).2000 - Pontardawe Arts Centre (Second
Year group exhibition Part II)
2000 - August 14th BBC RADIO WALES Interview.
2000 - August - Celtic Exchange Exhibition, Pontardawe.
2000 - August - Swansea Open Exhibition, Glynn Vivian
Gallery, Swansea.
2001
- June - The Factory
(Swansea School of Art &Design Degree Exhibition), Pontardawe.
2001
- July - Graduated from Swansea School of Art & Design
with a First Class (Hons) Degree
in Painting & Drawing).
2001"Blankets,
Shawls and Other Comforts"
2001
- Dec 20th - Featured on HENO S4C
TV.
2004 -
The Attic Gallery Summer Show.
2005
- Selected for shortlisting in the Boundary Road Figurative
Art Prize.
2005 - The
Attic Gallery Summer Show.
Works in Private and Public Collections:
Works
in private collections in UK, Ireland, the USA
and Australia.
Work also in the collection of Powys County Council.
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Perhaps this image
best shows the thick layering of paint that the palette knife
encourages.
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"Breconshire Farm" by Nigel
Williams. Oil on stretched canvas . 16" x 12" 2004
SOLD |
Nigel Williams Tel: +44 (0)1639 842850
Email: nigelwilliams77@tiscali.co.uk |
