Vivienne Williams RCA

Vivienne

Vivienne Williams RCA

New Work

9 - 26 April 2024

PREVIEW DAYS

Thursday 4 April: 12-6

Friday 5 April: 12-6

Saturday 6 April: 11-4

The entire exhibition can be viewed at www.thackeraygallery.com

The exhibition continues until 1pm on 26 April 2024

All work is available to view and purchase as of now

Autumn Fruit

acrylic on paper – 46 x 61cm

Pomegranates and Plums

acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Vessels with Figs

acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Easter Tulips with Lemon and Eggs

acrylic on paper – 56 x 76cm

Roses

acrylic on paper – 28 x 27cm

Apples in Blue Bowl

acrylic on paper – 30 x 30cm

Still Life with Lilies and Eggs

acrylic on paper – 46 x 61cm

Bowls with Eggs and Spoon acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

White Jug and Bowl acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Still Life with Chilli Pepper

acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Pears and Grapes with Flask

acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Still Life with Pomegranates acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Dark Vessel, Blue Jar and Eggs

acrylic on paper – 46 x 61cm

White Tulips with Strawberries and Beans

acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

White Lilies

acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Lilies and Eggs

acrylic on paper – 46 x 61cm

Tulip Bouquet

acrylic on paper – 38 x 38cm

Seven Eggs

acrylic on paper – 22 x 24cm

Crocus Bowl with Five Eggs

acrylic on paper – 51 x 41cm

Blue Flask with Strawberries and Pears

acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Still Life with Grapes and Figs acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Jug with Pears and Eggs

acrylic on paper – 42 x 40cm

Table with Apples and Eggs

acrylic on paper – 51 x 41cm

Still Life with Pears and Eggs

acrylic on paper – 51 x 41cm

Spring Tulips on Blue

acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Five Vessels

acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Flask with Apples and Pears

acrylic on paper – 41 x 51cm

Dark Jar with Apples

acrylic on paper – 31 x 41cm

Nine Eggs

acrylic on paper – 23 x 30cm

acrylic on paper – 43 x 51cm

Vessels with Eggs and Spoon

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Vivienne Williams was born in Swansea in 1955. She studied English Literature at Reading University taking a Masters Degree in ‘The Literary Response to the Visual Arts’ in 1978. 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 returning to Wales in 1990 and committing to painting full time.

Vivienne’s early work was expressive and very colourful - her subject matter mostly flowers.

Over the last twenty five years she has concentrated on still life painting with her palette constantly evolving and style becoming ever more distinctive.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2016, 18, 20, 22, 24 Thackeray Gallery, London

1993, 95, 97, 99, 01, 05, 12, 14 Attic Gallery, Swansea

1993 Arts Workshop (now Mission Gallery), Swansea

1992, 98, 00, 04, 09,10 Martin Tinney, Cardiff

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Thackeray Gallery, London; Moncrieff-Bray Gallery; Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol; RCA New Members Exhibition, Conwy; The Jerram Gallery, Sherborne; Edinburgh Art Fair; Martin Tinney Gallery; Oriel Tegfryn, Menai Bridge; London Art Fair, Business & Design Centre, Islington, London; Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, London; Royal College of Art, London; Battersea Affordable Art Fair, London; ‘One Hundred Years of Painting in Wales’, Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire;; Newport Museum and Art Gallery; ‘Essence of Wales II’, St. David’s Hall, Cardiff; Selected for Welsh Artist of the Year, Cardiff; Attic Gallery; Coach House Gallery, Caerphilly; Sydney Watercolour Exhibition, Australia

2021 Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol

2016 Thackeray Gallery, London

2012 The Jerram Gallery, Sherborne; Oriel Tegfryn, Menai Bridge

2008 Martin Tinney, Cardiff

1989-95 Attic Gallery, Swansea PRIZES & AWARDS:

2017 Elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy

2008 Invited to be on panel of judges for Welsh Artist of the Year competition, Cardiff

2003 Painting purchased by Contemporary Art Society of Wales (CASW)

2001 Short-listed for University of Glamorgan Purchase art Prize, Oriel y Bont, Pontypridd

2000 Highly recommended prize winner, Welsh Artist of the Year, Cardiff; Painting in Carmarthen County Hall, (BBC Your Paintings)

1999 Short-listed for University of Glamorgan Purchase Art Prize, Oriel y Bont, Pontypridd

1997 Commission for three paintings, Swansea University Library

1995 Painting chosen for CD cover, Swansea Bach Choir; Book cover, Buddhist Publishing, Diamant Verlag, Munich, Germany

1993 Three paintings chosen for World Trade Centre, Cardiff; Invited to provide programme cover for BBC National Orchestra of Wales season

1992 Artist in Residence, Ceri Richards Festival, Dunvant, Swansea

1991 National Eisteddfod of Wales, Mold, third prize

Front Cover: Jug with Pears and Eggs – acrylic on paper – 42 x 40cm