Nicholas Charles Williams is one of Britain's leading realist figurative painters. His work addresses the drives and forces of human behaviour conveyed through direct observational painting and underpinned with symbolism.

Williams has exhibited widely, with solo shows at the Russell-Cotes

Museum & Art Gallery, Bournemouth; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro,

St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh and Liverpool Cathedral for the opening

of the European Capital of Culture. In 2001 he was awarded the Hunting

Art Prize and in 2008 shortlisted for the Threadneedle Figurative Prize.

 

"... there is no one else that I can think of who places himself quite so firmly in the great tradition of the early Baroque, yet with no sense of anachronism or pastiche....And in taking on their great allegorical and spiritual themes, in spirit at least if not always to the actual letter, he is particularly close to the masters of the early Baroque and the followers of Caravaggio, and especially to Georges de la Tour and perhaps Valentin."

William Packer, art critic >>

              

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