Nicholas Charles Williams lives and works in Cornwall, South West England.

Solo shows include the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro and Liverpool Cathedral for European Capital of Culture.  In 2001 he was awarded the Hunting Art Prize and in 2008 shortlisted for the Threadneedle Figurative Prize.

William Packer, Art Critic >>
“Nicholas Charles Williams is one of British Art’s well-kept secrets... even so his reputation is growing fast as both one of the most accomplished figurative artist of his generation, and one of the most unusual. Indeed there is no one else that I can think of who places himself quite so firmly in the great tradition of early Baroque, yet with no sense of anachronism or pastiche. ... steeped not just in the imagery and techniques of the Renaissance and the Baroque, but daring the attempt to match them in pictorial scope and ambition. 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".

Two paintings by Williams made for scientific analysis challenging David Hockney's thesis on the use of optics by the Old Masters have been presented in numerous lectures at major academic institutions and galleries throughout Europe and the USA.  Presentations (lead by Dr David G.Stork) have taken place at Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Venice Biennale; The Louvre; National Gallery, London; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Oxford University; Cambridge University; Stanford University; Getty Research Institute; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.