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. Evelyn Williams

Evelyn Williams was born in 1929 in London to Welsh parents, and was brought up there. This made her one of "The London Welsh" . From 1944 to 1947 she studied Fine Art at St.Martin's School of Art in London and from 1947 to 1950 at London's Royal College of Art. While there, she won the EQ Henriques Prize for drawing . Besides an expert draughtsman she is a sculptor and painter; in 1961 she won first prize for sculpture in the John Moores competition . In the late 1980s she completed a series of sculptures of people in prison, exhibited in Bath in 1991.

The human condition has been the subject of her work for most of her life. Her paintings attempt to make visible her inner anguish. She has said about herself: "My work comes from my life, shaped, nourished and determined by events and accidental happenings, misfortunes and relationships. My work will always be introspective. This is me and all I know about. I would like to show how people feel about each other, and describe how they deal with their own personal predicament, but this is groping in the dark."

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1="Waiting for the Day", 2003, papermache & oilrelief, 41x31cm
2="Two Women", 1997, oil on canvas, 122x152cm
3="All Night Through", 1984, painted relief, 143x266cm
4="Poppies", 1981, charcoal, 135x79cm


See also under
http://www.evelynwilliams.com
and
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_11_88/ai_66888285

as well as in "The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945" page 1280.