Kevin Williams

First of all I am an artist. I graduated with a BA Degree in Visual Communications from West Midlands College of Higher Education in 1983 having done my Foundation course in Art and Design at Birmingham Art College in 1979/80. Since then I have made my living largely as a graphic designer and a photographer working in public and private sector organisations. I was born and bred in a small village in South Wales called Taffs Well. There, with the help of an excellent art teacher called Mrs Clay, I learned to draw and paint. Inspired then by the beauty of landscape I looked beyond the industry that surrounded me to the forests, hills and fields beyond. I was something of a nature boy. The village was industrial as was most of South Wales at that time. I felt somewhat oppressed by the industry, heavy industry such as coal mining, quarrying, iron and steel and the railways. I lost myself in great art and dreamed of being a landscape painter myself one day. Raised wonderfully by my mother alone I was encouraged to follow my passions. Together we visited Cardiff Museum and Art Gallery where I discovered the Impressionists and Rembrandt. Then we went to London to the National Gallery where my eyes were opened by Constable, Turner, Claude ...

BA Degree in Visual Communications 1983

Photographic Exhibition 'The family of men - The Watershed Gallery, Bristol 1983

3 Paintings exhibited at the Lighthouse Media Centre Gallery, Wolverhampton - Exhibition title 'From darkness to light'. September 2018

2 Paintings exhibited at the Lighthouse Media Centre Gallery, Wolverhampton - Exhibition title 'Transformations'. October 2018