Geoff Williams (born 1957) is a New Zealand contemporary realist artist, based in the southern

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city of Dunedin,

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. He is best known for his meticulously rendered acrylic paintings, encompassing nudes, landscapes and still life. He started his career as a sign writer and

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in his father's sign shop where he was exposed to other pre-eminent New Zealand artists. He has been working as full-time artists since the mid-1990s. Significant recognition was afforded Williams by pre-eminent art critic

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in the

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.Daly-Peoples, J: ''Painter presents sense of the sublime'', National Business Review, 29 August 2003 Peoples wrote

"Geoff Williams' paintings of landscapes, still life and nudes are filled with colour and light. The surface of these works are alive with thousands of tiny brush strokes that combine to make objects which shimmer and dance. There is an impressionistic quality to the work that recalls the pointillism of Seurat and the feverish brush strokes of van Gogh. Each work appears to have an underlying life force, the small painterly gestures animating the objects and their backgrounds. The artist also renders the varying textures of the objects he paints."

External links

Geoff William's websiteProfile at Fisher Galleries websiteArtist Profile and Examples of Work at The Artist's Room GalleryProfile at Saffron Gallery of Art

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Geoff 1957 births Living people Realist painters Contemporary painters Landscape painters New Zealand painters