Vivienne Williams RCA
Easter Tulips with Lemon and Eggs - acrylic on paper - 56 x 76cm
Nine Eggs - acrylic on paper - 23 x 30cm SOLD
White Tulips with Strawberries and Beans - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm
Pears and Grapes with Flask - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm
Table with Apples and Eggs - acrylic on paper - 51 x 41cm
Roses - acrylic on paper - 28 x 27cm
Jug with Pears and Eggs - acrylic on paper - 42 x 40cm
Still Life with Pears and Eggs - acrylic on paper - 51 x 41cm
White Lilies - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm SOLD
Vessels with Figs - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm SOLD
Still Life with Grapes and Figs - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm
Spring Tulips on Blue - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm
Pomegranates and Plums - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm SOLD
White Jug and Bowl - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm
Flask with Apples and Eggs - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm SOLD
Dark Jar with Apple - acrylic on paper - 31 x 41cm
Five Vessels - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm SOLD
Still Life with Lilies and Eggs - acrylic on paper - 46 x 61cm
Autumn Fruit - acrylic on paper - 46 x 61cm SOLD
Kitchen Still Life - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm
Lilies and Eggs - acrylic on paper - 46 x 61cm
Pale Jar with Fruit Bowl - acrylic on paper - 31 x 41cm SOLD
Bowl with Eggs and Spoon - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm SOLD
Still Life with Pomegranates - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm
Crocus Bowl with Five Eggs - acrylic on paper - 51 x 41cm
Seven Eggs - acrylic on paper - 22 x 24cm SOLD
Apples in Blue Bowl - acrylic on paper - 30 x 30cm SOLD
Blue Crocus - acrylic on paper - 41 x 31cm
Still Life with Chilli Pepper - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm
Dark Vessel, Blue Jar and Eggs - acrylic on paper - 46 x 61cm
Vessels with Eggs and Spoon - acrylic on paper - 43 x 50cm
Tulip Bouquet - acrylic on paper - 38 x 38cm
Blue Flask with Strawberries and Pears - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm SOLD
Crocus Bowl with Eggs - acrylic on paper - 51 x 41cm
Kitchen Table with Red Tulips - acrylic on canvas - 51 x 41cm
Still Life with Strawberries and Spoon - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm
Still Life with Norwegian apples - acrylic on paper - 56 x 76cm
Pale Vessels - acrylic on paper - 41 x 51cm
Pear Bowl with Spanish Lemons - acrylic on paper - 41 x 41cm
Vivienne Williams was born in Swansea in 1955. She studied English Literature at Reading University, taking a Masters Degree in ‘The Literary Response to the Visual Arts’ in 1978. She spent the next five years abroad, teaching English in Venice and Padua and working in an art gallery in Sydney, where she began selling her work for the first time. Returning to the UK in 1983, she spent the next seven years studying, and working in a Buddhist Community, before returning to Wales in 1990 and committing to painting full time.
Vivienne’s early work was expressive and very colourful – her subject matter mostly flowers. Over the last twenty five years she has concentrated on still life painting with her palette constantly evolving and style becoming ever more distinctive.
Exhibiting with increasing success in Wales and further afield, Vivienne has acquired a large and loyal following. Over the last twenty years she has had regular solo exhibitions in Attic Gallery in Swansea and Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff; exhibiting with the latter at the London Contemporary Art Fair and British Art Fair since the early nineties.
A prize-winner at the National Eisteddfod in 1993, Vivienne also went onto receive a highly commended prize at the inaugural Welsh Artist of the Year Competition in Cardiff in 2000. Furthermore, she was invited onto the panel of Judges in 2008
Her work has been purchased by the Contemporary Art Society of Wales, and can be found in many Public and Private Collections to include: Carmarthen County Hall, Swansea University Library and the World Trade Centre, Cardiff.
She has been described by Artist Sarah Bradford as “a brilliant and contemplative colourist..……there are so many gorgeous things going on compositionally – surfaces, colours, shapes…her work is calm and quiet, giving up its’ secrets gently, rewarding you for a long time”.
As Andrew Green, the former Head of the National Library of Wales writes, the paintings ‘possess a determined search for harmony: not just a visual harmony, but a corresponding human harmony, a learned stillness of mind. Vivienne has long been influenced by Tibetan Buddhism, which emphasises the importance of achieving tranquillity through removing mental obstruction. Her paintings are more than self-complete formal compositions. They do hold an intent, for those open to their invitation’.
In her own words:
“I paint pots, jugs and bowls, flowers and fruit. Everything in the picture is re-arranged and repainted many times – deciding what to leave in and what to leave out is a balancing act. The spaces are as significant as the objects themselves. As the layers of paint build, the surface texture is energetically worked, scratched, sanded and stained. At any moment there is an opportunity for a painting to emerge”.