This brooding work steps away from her recent Abstract Expressionist themes to explore her feminist influences. Williams situates herself here not just in an artistic tradition but explicitly within a female one, in the work’s clear allusion both to the spare yet energetic, fraying lines and the passionate social engagement of Nancy Spero, but also…
Category: archetypes
Archetypes 5: It’s A Hard Rain Gonna Fall (2019, tempura on canvas)
This brooding addition to the Archetypes series departs from the light-filled watercolour technique of earlier painting, employing layers of intensely coloured tempura on canvas to convey an apocalyptic atmosphere that draws from end of the world scenarios as diverse as Bob Dylan’s metaphor-strewn landscapes and today’s Extinction Rebellion youth climate change protests as well as…
Archetypes 4: Pegasus (2018, watercolour)
The artist returns to her Archetypes series with a high-octane rendition of one of the most represented figures from Greek mythology: Pegasus, the winged stallion born from Medusa’s death and ridden by Bellerophon in his battle against the Chimera. The blurring and indistinct forms give the sense of movement at great speed: winged horse and…
Archetypes 3: Et In Arcadia Ego (2018, tempera)
This plangent piece returns to the mysterious territory between landscape and archetype with a tempera work that draws on the delicate landscape palette of Poussin, the bold, furious brushwork of Jackson Pollock and the famous memento mori hidden in Holbein’s The Ambassadors. Et In Arcadia Ego responds to the theme of a morally ambiguous garden…
Archetypes 2: Titan (2018, watercolour)
This dramatic piece develops the artist’s characteristic ‘impasto’ technique, creating light by working into the surface to render rough areas of paint smooth and lucent, creating areas of a dreamlike violet within the energetic, almost violent textures of clashing and blending purple and gold. The Titans, gigantic children of earth and heaven, rebelled against their…
Archetypes 1: The Erl-King (2018, watercolour)
This series makes a deeper exploration of themes seen emerging from the ‘landscape of the soul’ concept elaborated in Landscapes 6: The House In The Woods. Drawing on Jungian notions of mythic archetypes as the deep structures of culture, society and the human soul, The Erl-King opens the series with a dark and driving work…
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