Two shows and a brilliant new book!
A major new book - a full monograph - of Evelyn's life and work has just been published by John Sansom & Co. Written by Nicholas Usherwood and with a foreward by John McEwen, it reproduces over 150 paintings, drawings and sculptures. It is priced at £35.
It can be obtained through bookshops ISBN 978-1-906593-13-1 or direct from the publisher Sansom & Company or email anthony@evelynwilliams.com
There will be a book signing by Evelyn Williams at Abbott and Holder, Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH (opposite the British Museum) on Saturday 4th October 2008, 12.00 - 2.00 to accompany an exhibition of 28 of her drawings. The drawings can be viewed from September 6th on the Abbott and Holder website. If you would like an invitation please email Anthony.
A major exhibition of new paintings opens on 1st October 2008 at the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff and will run until 25th October. For a catalogue please email mtg@artwales.com.
It is a very happy time for Evie.
Quartet 1
One of the large paintings to be shown at the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff, from 1st until 25th October 2008.
Evelyn
Williams
Evelyn Williams born 1929 has been painting pictures since she left A. S. Neil's famous Summerhill School at age 14 and went to St Martins School of Art and the The Royal College of Art.
Visit "work" to see some of Evelyn's other paintings, drawings and sculptures. See what the critics have said about her work over the years by clicking on "details".
Dreaming 1
"Dreaming 1" sold at The London Art Fair 2008. You can see other work for sale on Martin Tinney Gallery website. There will be a large show of Evelyn's work at this Gallery, which is scheduled for October 2008.
The Birds
The Woods 2
These major works were sold by Agnews in their brilliant "Looking Forward" show in July 2007.
Summer Painting
This large "Summer Painting" featured in Martin Tinney's exhibition in Cardiff on the work of major Welsh artists. Catalogues can be purchased at mtg@artwales.com. A great show.
The only hope for painting lies in the revival of the image. It may already be too late and there may be no future, for the image demands an underlying mastery of drawing and the convincing communication of all those qualities that were made to seem so easy half way through the Italian Renaissance six centuries ago. The urge to paint is as strong an instinct as ever, but those who teach have abandoned the necessary skills and disciplines, and the patronage of the church and stage that nourished so many works of genius is now moribund. If painting is ever to triumph, then painters must recover skills that for centuries were commonplace, and find subjects that have something of the once universal moral weight of the Bible, the old mythologies and history.