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NIGEL WILLIAMS
Nigel Williams has an MA in Fine Art and is a first-class honours graduate in painting and drawing. He is a lecturer in Fine Art at Gorseinon College of Further Education and is an associate Tutor at Swansea University within the Department of Continuing Education where he teaches painting in oils. He has been featured on HTV Primetime and his work has been shown on S4C arts programmes. Nigel has work in collections in the UK, Australia, Ireland and, more recently, Chicago in the U.S.A.
The M.A. work dealt with formal issues of the oil paint and support within the heading of "Investigations into Visual Atomism", a line of enquiry that stems from Seurat and Pointillism and includes work by Roy Lichtenstein. The manner in which paint is applied creates a wonderful array of marks and intersections between the marks. In the case of palette knife painting this means there are a series ridges and 'walls' between the strokes. It is these areas that have potential to be explored further.
Nigel has exhibited in many of the leading galleries in Wales and his first two solo exhibitions sold out within days of opening. He has recently been invited to exhibit at the 2005 Florence Biennale of Painting and sculpture. Full list of exhibitions is included below.
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WORK FOR SALE - PLEASE NOTE: some colour variations may be present due to limitations of reproduction on different monitors.
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This page contains some landscape paintings and drawings.
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If you would like to view some of Nigel's recent MA explorations of landscape please click here...
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"Interior of the Guiness Factory, Dublin" 2006
(image size 28.5" x 21". 72 x 53cm)
Original Watercolour.
Currently unframed.
£750.
Free Postage with this original painting (Guiness Factory).
Prints of the painting are available upon request. Please email
for details.
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SPECIAL OFFER
- "Plantasia" 1999 pencil and wash by Nigel Williams.
This drawing was produced for, and exhibited in, the Wales Drawing Biennale in 1999. This is the first time the woprk has been offered for sale on-line. It was exhibited at the Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wrexham Art Centre, The Howard Gardens Gallery in Cardiff and the Aberystwyth Art Centre. The drawing is framed and mounted (as shown) and measures 34.5" x 27.25" (actual drawing size = 27" x 20"). The drawing was made from a series of sketches produced on location at Plantasia in Swansea and has been painstakingly rendered over a period of several months. The drawing was further exhibited in a solo exhibiton of work in 2001 and was featured on S4C's Heno programme.
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Detail of the drawing...
"Plantasia" is offered for sale at £500
(including delivery to the UK.
Import taxes apply to countries outside the UK and quotation for shipping can be obtained at request
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"Illfracoombe"
oil on canvas 14"x10"
£275
(framed)
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"Rain over the Giant - Abercraf" Oil on board 16"x12"
(Framed price £300)
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"Rocks" Brecon Beacons
Pencil & wash 2004
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"Rocks" II Pencil & wash 2005
30" x 26.5" framed
£850
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Some of the works on display here can be viewed through the Attic Gallery in Swansea
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"Above Craig Y Nos" 4' x 3'
Palette knife - Oil on canvas 2004
£1,200 (framed to purchaser's specification)
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The true dimension of a work are sometimes difficult to imagine. Here you can see the size of the unframed painting set above a fireplace. The painting is set low on the wall but could have been raised another 6" quite comfortably within the available space (the firplace is also set off the ground, reducing the space).
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(Palette knife technique)
"Stream above Dan-yr-Ogof (Breconshire)" Oil on stretched canvas
20" x 24" (unframed size)
£475
SOLD
(will be framed and sold with plain black 2" wide wood frame)
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"Landscape has an important place within the canon of art history and should never be relegated to the lower divisions of contemporary art practice."
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"Skomer from Ramsey Sound" by Nigel Williams. Oil on canvas board 16" x 12" MMIV
Price £300
SOLD
(Framed - including post & packing)
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Although I tend to work with contemporary issues for the most part, I still also love to paint landscapes. From rolling hills to single trees, my only guiding criteria is a sense of personal meaning. Within this page I have a number of paintings displayed from a recent series of work concentrating upon the application of paint using a palette knife. Each painting is richly coated in layers of buttery oil paint applied directly from the tube. This method of working permits immediate response to the subject matter and demands the eradication of superfluous marks and overpainting.
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To ignore the importance and influence of landscape drawing and painting within art would be to dismiss the influence of great artists, such as JMW Turner, John Constable, the Impressionists and our own Sir Kyffin Williams RA as
'Sunday painters'.
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"Caldey Island from Penally" by Nigel Williams. Oil on canvas board 16" x 12" MMIV
£300
SOLD
(Framed)
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"Pen-y-fan (Breconshire), from Penwyllt" by Nigel Williams.
Oil on canvas board 24" x 18" (unframed size)
£395
SOLD
(private collection)
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Landscape painting, and palette knife painting, is an extremely liberating and enjoyable experience. Oil paints provide a medium to suit a vast array of styles and techniques, yet demands an understanding of its properties, strengths and weaknesses.
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EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS:
1991 - First solo exhibition; Swansea Valley
1991 - Featured
HTV ‘PRIMETIME
’ arts television programme.
1994 - Second solo exhibition; Swansea Valley.
1994 - Illustrated ‘The First 100’ (Book).
1997 -‘
Aspects of Wales
(group exhibition) Pontardawe Art Centre.
1999 - ‘
Wales Drawing Biennale
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Wrexham Art Centre
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Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
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Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
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Aberystwyth Art Centre.
1999 -
Ceri Richards Gallery
, Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea.
1999 - ‘
Watercolour Society of Wales
’ Anniversary Exhibition,
Newport Museum
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2000 -
Washington Gallery, Penarth
, Cardiff (Second Year group exhibition).2000 - Pontardawe Arts Centre (Second Year group exhibition Part II)
2000 - August 14th
BBC RADIO WALES
Interview.
2000 - August -
Celtic Exchange Exhibition
, Pontardawe.
2000 - August -
Swansea Open Exhibition
, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea.
2001 - June -
The Factory
(Swansea School of Art &Design Degree Exhibition), Pontardawe.
2001 - July - Graduated from Swansea School of Art & Design with a
First Class (Hons) Degree
in Painting & Drawing).
2001
"Blankets, Shawls and Other Comforts"
2001 - Dec 20th - Featured on
HENO S4C TV.
2004
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The
Attic Gallery
Summer Show.
2005 - Selected for shortlisting in the
Boundary Road Figurative Art Prize
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2005
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The
Attic Gallery
Summer Show.
2005 - Dec - Invited to exhibit at the
Florence Biennale Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
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Works in Private and Public Collections:
Works in private collections in
UK, Ireland
, the
USA
and
Australia
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Work also in the collection of
Powys County Council
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Painting with a knife is a wonderfully disciplined yet also expressive way of working.
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"Pembroke Farm" by Nigel Williams. Oil on
canvas board. 16" x 12" MMIV
£300 (Framed)
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Perhaps this image best shows the thick layering of paint that the palette knife encourages.
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"Breconshire Farm" by Nigel Williams. Oil on stretched canvas . 16" x 12" MMIV
£330 (Framed)
SOLD
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Nigel Williams Tel: +44 (0)
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