Evelyn Williams
Welsh artist, Evelyn Williams was born in 1929 and has been painting pictures since she left A. S. Neil's famous Summerhill School at the age of 14. She went to St Martin’s School of Art and then to The Royal College of Art. Now, at the age of 78, she is still working daily.
Her tender, intimate and emotional paintings are concerned with the subtleties and complexities of relationships and the human predicament. Her very personal paintings have followed her progress through life as child, lover, mother and grandmother.
In 1961 Evelyn Williams won first prize for sculpture in the John Moores competition, and over the years has had recognition in many public galleries including a retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1972.
Her work is in numerous public and private collections, including the National Museum of Wales, the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cambridge University and the British Arts Council.
There is a fully illustrated catalogue for her recent exhibition, with an essay by Fay Weldon. Please see the catalogue page for details.
There is also a book available - 'Evelyn Williams - Works and Words'. Please see the books page.
Mae Evelyn Williams, artist ffigurol o Gymru, wedi bod yn peintio ers iddi adael Ysgol Summerhill yr enwog A.S.Neil yn bedair ar ddeg mlwydd oed. Astudiodd yng Ngholeg Celf St. Martin ac yna yng Ngholeg Brenhinol Celf. Nawr yn 77 mae’n parhau i weithio’n ddyddiol.
Mae ei pheintiadau emosiynol, agos a tyner yn ymwneud â chymlethdod a chyfrwystra perthnasau a rhagfynegiadau dynol. Mae ei pheintio personol wedi dilyn ei thaith drwy fywyd fel plentyn, cariad, mam a mam-gu.
Yn 1961 enillodd Evelyn Williams y wobr gyntaf am gerflunio yng nghystadleuaeth John Moore a dros y blynyddoedd mae wedi arddangos mewn nifer o orielau cyhoeddus gan gynnwys arddangosfa olyddol yn Oriel Whitechapel yn 1972.
Mae nifer o’i gwaith mewn casgliadau preifat a cyhoeddus, gan gynnwys Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru, Cymdeithas Gelfyddyd Gyfoes Cymru, Amgueddfa Victoria ac Albert, Prifysgol Caergrawnt a Cyngor Celfyddydol Prydain i enwi rhai.
Mae catalog o'i harddangosfa diwethaf a llyfr 'Evelyn Williams - Works and Words' ar gael. Gweler Llyfrau & Chatalogau.
Selected Exhibitions
2006 ‘Paintings and Drawings‘, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff
2003 Agnew’s, London
1999 England & Co., London
1997 ‘Encounters’, Manchester City Art Galleries
1994 ‘Antinomies’, Mead Gallery, Warwick University and Tour
1991 ‘Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures’, Cleveland Gallery, Bath
1991 ‘Paintings’, King of Hearts, Norwich
1990 ‘Out of the Forest’, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
1990 Chapter, Cardiff
1989 One Person Show, The Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
1988 ‘Drawings’, Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucestershire
1985 ‘Drawings, Sculptures and Reliefs’, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery
1985 Rochdale Art Gallery
1984 ‘Drawings and Reliefs’, Riverside Studios, London
1983 ‘Reliefs’, Monica Kinley, London
1978 ‘White Work Wax Sculpture’, House Gallery, London
1973 ‘Reliefs and Wax Sculpture’, Marjorie Parr Gallery, London
1972 ‘A Retrospective 1945 – 1972’, Whitechapel Art Gallery
1960 ‘Paintings’, Arthur Jeffress Gallery, London
1958 ‘Paintings and Drawings’, Woodstock Gallery, London
Collections / Casgliadau
National Museum and Gallery of Wales
Victoria & Albert Museum
Contemporary Art Society for Wales
The Arts Council of England
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
New Hall, Cambridge
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Leicester Museum
Nuffield Foundation
The Government Art Collection
Rugby Gallery & Museum
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