Annie Williams (painter)

Annie Williams (born 1942) is a watercolour artist who won the 2009 Turner Watercolour Award.[1]

For other people named Annie Williams, see Annie Williams (disambiguation).

Biography

Born in London, the daughter of artist Ivor Williams and Elizabeth Pocock, Williams grew up in Wales and trained and worked as a nurse before studying Fine Art at City and Guilds from 1966 to 1969.[1]

Her later work has been almost entirely still-life. She enjoys playing with shapes, pattern and colour, mixing the familiar with some abstraction, and precision with suggestion. Her foregrounds are a few simple objects, usually pots, and backgrounds are created from textiles or old newspaper cuttings, and even some unfinished paintings as a starting point.

She has had one-woman shows at the Baker Tilly Gallery, Grape Lane Gallery and University of Warwick. Awards include a travel scholarship to Florence, The Artist Magazine Award at the Mall Galleries, and various awards from the RWS open exhibition 21st Century Watercolour. Annie is a Member of the Royal Watercolour Society[2] and a senior fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. She has regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

In 2013, her exhibition "Still Life: Prints and Watercolours" was held at the University of Aberystwyth.[1]

References
  1. "Aberystwyth University: Annie Williams RWS RE RBA". Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  2. "Royal Watercolour Society: Annie Williams". Retrieved 16 January 2016.
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