Annie Williams

ELECTED ARWS 2003 & RWS 2007

Annie Williams was born in 1942 in London but grew up in Wales. She trained and worked as a nurse before studying art at City and Guilds Art School from 1966 to 1969, gaining a diploma in Fine Art. She was elected to the RWS in 2003, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) in 2005 and the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in 2011. Her work has been reproduced in several publications and as cards. Annie has won several awards, including the RWS Turner Award and the RBA Whistler Award, and exhibited in many galleries around the country. 

Her recent work has been almost entirely still-life. She enjoys playing with shapes, pattern and colour, mixing the familiar with some abstraction, and precision with suggestion. Her foregrounds are a few simple objects, usually pots, and backgrounds are created from textiles or old newspaper cuttings, and even some unfinished paintings as a starting point.