Claudia Williams (artist)

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Claudia Williams
Born1933
Purley, England
NationalityBritish
Alma mater Chelsea School of Art
Known forPainting
Spouse Gwilym Prichard

Claudia Jane Herington Williams (born 1933) is a British artist known for her paintings, often large colourful portraits. Although born in England, Williams has spent the majority of her career painting in Wales.

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Biography

Williams was born in Purley in Surrey and was educated at the Eothen School in Caterham before entering the Chelsea School of Art in 1950. [1] That year she was the winner of the young persons art prize at the National Eisteddford of Wales held at Caerphilly. [2] Williams graduated from Chelsea in 1953 and over the next decade, alongside teaching part-time in schools and for the Worker's Educational Association, became a regular participant both in group exhibitions organised by the Arts Council of Wales and at the annual Eisteddford art shows. [3] [1] Her work was included in the Contemporary Welsh Painting and Sculpture exhibition held at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff during 1957. [3]

Williams married the artist Gwilym Prichard and they held a number of joint exhibitions together, notably as part of the Bangor Arts Festival. [1] In the early 1980s the couple began travelling through Europe, living for periods on Skiathos in Greece and, for fifteen years, near Rochefort-en-Terre in Brittany, before returning to Wales in 1999. [4] [5] Williams participated in several group shows in Europe, winning first prize at the Salon de Vannes in 1989, exhibiting at the Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1993 and at the Salon de Nantes Biennale in both 1987 and 1989. [3] Solo shows of her paintings were held at the Galerie Romanet in Paris in 1989 and at the Philip Mouwes Gallery in Amsterdam in 1994. [3]

Williams was elected a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1979 and became an Honorary Fellow of Bangor University in 2002. [3] [5] The Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters in Paris awarded her their Silver Medal in 1995. [5] The National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth held a major retrospective of her work in 2000 and an exhibition of more recent works in 2010 while the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff held an exhibition of new material in 2016. [5] In 2014 the National Library of Wales published a book of some twenty paintings, mostly pastels, by Williams that were inspired by the displacement of local villages to create the Llyn Celyn reservoir. [6] Works by Williams are held in the art collections of Bangor University, Aberystwyth University, Southampton Art Gallery and Newport Museum and Art Gallery. [3]

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References

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  2. Peter Lord (2000). The Visual Culture of Wales: Imaging the Nation . University of Wales Press, Cardiff. ISBN   0708315879.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Peter W Jones; Isabel Hitchman (2015). Post War to Post Modern: A Dictionary of Artists in Wales. Gomer Press. ISBN   978-184851-8766.
  4. Karen Price (22 April 2013). "Capturing Wales: One of our best-loved artists is celebrated with a new book and major exhibition". WalesOnline. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "New work on show by Welsh artist Claudia Williams". BBC News. 8 June 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  6. Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, ed. (2014). Tryweryn. National Library of Wales.

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