Ian Williams
In my final year at the RCA 1970, I moved to Boveridge, Cranborne in Dorset, using that year's grant to concentrate on painting in the surrounding countryside. At the same time I made a series of small woodcuts inspired by thatchers' ladders and night creatures. Whilst at the RCA - being close to the V&A - I was inspired by the collections, including Samuel Palmer drawings and Elizabethan embroidery from which I later made paintings and sculpture. I worked as a shepherd in Dorset and Wiltshire for 30 years, whilst continuing to paint, make sculptures etc. and exhibit. I moved to France in 2002 where I painted seascapes 'en plein air'. Moved to Bridport in 2009,and continued to paint and make plaster sculptures, partly based on drawings and improvising with the flexible character of clay and plaster. New experiments with heated wax were then cast into bronze. During Covid I made rainbow arches constructed of painted plywood for neighbours' houses, consisting of doves and other creatures.There was an enthusiastic response to these and new birds' nests and doves, added to the hedges as time went on. In 2022 I moved to Dorchester, where I continued to make plywood dove nests and a group of 'Dove Roundels' featuring the seasons and loosely based on medieval bosses. For around fifty years, doves have been a recurring motif in my work including a series of woodcuts. In the Summer of 2024, I began drawing at Bincombe,Thorncombe Wood, and Stinsford, focusing on details such as tracks, entrances, openings and gaps, echoing themes in my sculptures. Currently I am making drawings(doodles) in the studio which have developed unexpectedly.The ten images are a few from the past fifty five years,starting with two paintings of Boveridge1970, ending with a recent fossil painting and local landscape drawings.
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