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Vivienne Williams was born 1955, in Swansea.

After graduating she spent the next five years abroad, teaching English in Venice and Padua and working in an art gallery in Sydney where she began selling her work for the first time. Returning to the UK in 1983 she spent the next seven years studying and working in a Buddhist Community before becoming a full time painter in 1990, returning to Wales at this time.

She has been quietly building a reputation as a significant artist in Wales over the last twenty years with regular solo exhibitions in Swansea and Cardiff. Her work has also been shown at the London Contemporary Art Fair and the British Art Fair from the early nineties. Her first solo exhibition in London was in 2016.

As one of the leading Welsh contemporary artists, Vivienne was elected RCA in 2017. Her work is in public and private collections throughout Britain and abroad.

Lime Tree Gallery has represented Vivienne in Long Melford and Bristol since 2009 and at art fairs in London, Edinburgh and Hong Kong.

Education:

1974 - 77 BA Hons. English Literature, Reading University

1978 MA “The Literary Response to the Visual Arts”, Reading University



Solo Exhibitions

Eighteen solo exhibitions to date including:

2020, 2018, 2016 Thackeray Gallery, London

2014, 2012 Attic Gallery, Swansea



Prizes

2017 Elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy
2000 Highly commended at the inaugural Welsh Artist of the Year competition, Cardiff
1993 National Eisteddfod


Artist statement:

I paint flowers, fruit, pots, jugs and bowls – often on a table, lately with more views from the window, some objects in open landscape. Everything in the picture is rearranged and repainted many times, deciding what to leave in and what to leave out is a balancing act. The spaces are as significant as the objects themselves.

As the layers of paint build, the surface texture is energetically worked, scratched, sanded and stained. It always surprises me when a battle on the paper resolves itself into a calm painting.

Artwork by Vivienne Williams RCA View All