Annie Williams (born 1942) is a

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artist who won the 2009 Turner Watercolour Award.

Biography

Born in London, the daughter of artist

Ivor Williams Ivor Williams (1908 – 1982) was a Welsh artist. He was born in London, the son of the Welsh painter Christopher Williams and Emily Appleyard (sister of the artist Fred Appleyard). He trained at the Central School of Art and Design and ...

and Elizabeth Pocock, Williams grew up in Wales and trained and worked as a nurse before studying

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from 1966 to 1969. Her later work has been almost entirely

still-life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, boo ...

. 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

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s 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

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. 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

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and a senior fellow of the

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. She has regularly exhibited at the

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

References

External links

images of Williams' work
on Invaluable * Artist and the Radio https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/inspiration/artist_annie_williams.shtml {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Annie 1942 births Living people 20th-century Welsh painters 21st-century Welsh painters 20th-century British women artists 21st-century British women artists Painters from London Women watercolorists Welsh watercolourists Welsh women painters