The Sea, The Sea - New Works by Steve Williams

About

‘The Sea, The Sea’will highlight Williams’ distinctive approach to depicting Yorkshire’s rich landscape and coastline and offer a fascinating insight into a unique, artistic character. 

Steve Williams is an instinctive painter. His pictures take shape through the practical and emotional process of painting, not through adherence to a fully formulated plan. Through the exploration of his own response to his subject matter, Williams allows his paintings to develop as a result of his mood or subconscious at that given moment. The works stem from an original idea, location, image or situation and then come together of their own accord, influenced by the physical and emotional context within which they are painted.

Inspired by the “deep blue,” and the experiences and emotions that stem from this most powerful and ever-shifting environment, Williams’ new works simultaneously evoke a myriad of distinct responses within the viewer and portray an equally varied state of being from the painter himself. 

A carefully curated selection of ceramics from Kathryn Sherriff, Hatti McKenzieand jewellery from Sarah Drewand Zoe Catherine Kendall, amongst others, will continue the exhibition’s thematic exploration of the sea and the Yorkshire coastline.

Steve Williams

Steve Williams is a self-taught artist who left the corporate world in favour of a more creative career as a gardener and painter – Steve Williams is one of a small team of gardeners at Newby Hall, Ripon. When he is not working in the great outdoors, Steve can be found surrounded by a sea of colours and paintbrushes in the comfort of his home in York, from where he produces each and every one of his intensely bright and emotive paintings.

Steve uses bold, bright colours to bring to life scenes of the Yorkshire coast and Yorkshire countryside into his largely abstract paintings. His colourful paintings are instinctive and explore an emotional response to his subject matter and develop as a result of as a result of his mood or subconscious mind-set. They stem from an original idea, scene or situation and then come together of their own accord. In his work he infuses energy, colour and texture. As he works spontaneously the energy is captured for the viewer to see and experience for themselves in all of his works.

Steve comments “Nature is my inspiration and painting my therapy. A great deal of my energy and emotion goes into each piece. The colours, textures and marks are spontaneous and I need to work in this way in order to obtain my relationship with the subject. It is of huge importance to me that people feel that they can connect with my work, this inspires me as much as my subject matter.’

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