London Evening Standard - 1 June 2001 – Brian Sewell
'How many of the [Turner Prize] judges have seen the old-fashioned pictorial fantasies of Nicholas Williams in his Newquay studio, a converted lifeboat station? –200 square feet of his Adoration of the Sea is not cutting edge but has about it, as does all his work, the engaging madness of a driven man, an eccentricity of great appeal, the rashness of a painter who must paint and never mind the near impossibility of patronage'