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photo by Bernard Mitchell
. Nigel Williams
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"Bethlehem", 2001
oil on canvas
122x122cm
"Dreams II", 2001
oil on canvas
122x122cm
"Angel I", 2001
oil on canvas
122x122cm(1&2=artist's collection, 3=collection Mr&Mrs.S.Evans)
"Breconshire Farm", 2004
oil on canvas
30x41cm
"Crai Reservoir", 2004
oil on canvas
30x41cm
"Skomer from Ramsey", 2004
oil on canvas
30x41cm(4-6=in private collections)
Nigel Williams was born in 1960 in Abercraf, South Wales. From 1998 to 2001 he studied art at the Swansea Institute of Higher Education, School of Art & Design. He has his studio in Ystradgynlais, Swansea Valley; influence: Ken Elias, Glyneath.
Artist's Statement: My work has recently changed towards a search for a resolution of personal formative experiences within a relatively poor, but loving, Swansea valley family of the nineteen sixties. Undoubtedly inspired in many ways by the work of Ken Elias, MA RCA, of Glynneath, my work is an attempt to describe the continuing search for the innocent security of the shawls and blankets of my childhood."
Although I currently work with the blanket theme I also continue to paint landscapes (my first love) and believe that landscape painting suffers from an appalling ignorance within contemporary art practice. Again, I try to use many methods of recording impressions or emotions. A single tree can convey many things to many people. It is this ambiguity of meaning, even within landscapes that matter to me.
