Paul Williams was born in Sydney and loved art from a very early age, getting into trouble at school for doodling and drawing all over his text books. While pursuing a career in property valuation and land management and raising a family in Mosman, Paul painted in his spare time and attended art schools at night. He has been making art and exhibiting his work full time for the past ten years and particularly enjoys painting and drawing from the model.
Paul’s approach to the figure is free and whimsical and a feature of his style is the interplay of line and space. His preferred materials are acrylics and charcoal.
“After some years of painting traditional nudes I became restless and thought of stepping through the
looking glass into the world of Contemporary Art. Eventually I took Brett Whiteley’s advice: …’cheat,
lie and distort for six months and then there will be the beginnings of difficult pleasure.’
“In my work the subject is treated as being subordinate to pictorial requirements such as paint handling, design and the psychological overtones of distortion. My interpretations are intuitive and immediate.”
Paul has been represented by galleries in Sydney, regional N.S.W. and Brisbane and his work is
hanging in private and institutional collections both in Australia and abroad.