ABOUT
Born in Somerset, England, Williams became enamored with all the arts from an early age. By the age of eight, she was an accomplished pianist, played multiple instruments, painted in various mediums, and sculpted with anything she could lay her hands on. In her early teens, Williams excelled at sculpture and continued painting in multiple mediums. At seventeen, she majored in art and was a film set intern in London. Her move to the US saw her establish an award-winning international greeting card company. Her 2004 move to Asheville, NC, was the impetus to propel her professional career as a full-time artist. She delved back into sculpture with great success in 2005, and it was her use of waxes in 2006 on a post-fired sculptural work that forayed her into painting with encaustic for the next ten years. In 2015, she added alcohol ink to her repertoire, which she used with her encaustic paint medium. In 2016-current, saw the exclusive use of alcohol ink and experimentation on different substrates.
Williams's paintings and sculptures are in private and corporate collections and frequently commissioned for many site-specific locations. She has been on the cover and featured in various print publications and filmed by PBS and other US television programs.
OBSERVATION
Williams draws inspiration from nature's structure. Geological and topographical observation become abstracted, flattened by her trademark spherical and striated patterning, rendering expressive compositions. She has developed a unique style into a re-imagined rhythmic visual dialogue and innovating her medium.
MEDIUM & PROCESS
Williams creates her signature work by blending an alcohol-based, acid-free, highly pigmented fluid paint medium. She uses unique techniques in multiple layers on different substrates to capture an arena of colors and shapes.