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NIGEL WILLIAMS
Nigel Williams is a first-class honours graduate in painting and drawing and is currently studying for a Masters Degree in Fine Art. 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.
Nigel has exhibited in many of the leading galleries in Wales and his first two solo exhibitions sold out within days of opening.
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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 MA course landscape paintings and drawings.
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If you would like to view some of Nigel's realist landscapes please click here...
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"Worms Head, Gower" by Nigel Williams
Oil on canvas 4' x 4'
£1,500 (unframed)
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"Worms Head, Gower" is following my earlier undergraduate explorations of representational systems. Earlier work explored anamorphic perspective and this branched into the examination of 'pre-linear perspective' systems of representation. The aboriginal people of Australia used a system in which the 'storyteller' was placed within the centre of the image and narrative elements structured around this central focus.
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"Gower Coast"
Oil on Canvas 3' x 3'
£600 (unframed)
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"Gower Coast"
Oil on board
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"Gower Coast II"
Oil on board
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The M.A. work is presently dealing with formal issues of the oil paint and support. 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.
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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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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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"Gower Coast III"
Oil on board
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"Gower Surf"
Oil on board
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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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"Gower Coast IV"
Oil on board
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Painting with a knife can be a wonderfully disciplined method of working yet also provides a means of expression that a brush cannot.
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This body of work is a step towards the development of images based upon prosess.
The work also challenges of perceptions of scale and traditionsal concepts of formal elements within painting.
Painting has suffered during the last century as a result of the post-dada trends within conceptualsim. I hope to link back to my undergraduate studies during the MA course, and to use my personal drive to highlight the need to re-embrace painting. This will hopefully be achieved by the manner in which the work will be presented for exhibition.
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"Untitled"
Oil on board
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Nigel Williams Tel: +44 (0)
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