Background
Kit Williams was born on April 28, 1946 in Kent, United Kingdom.
Kit Williams was born on April 28, 1946 in Kent, United Kingdom.
Kit Williams spent time in the Royal Navy and worked with electronics during his younger years, but eventually found his calling of painting. He has worked as a figurative painter for the last 45 years at his studio in Gloucestershire and along the way has published four books, including "Masquerade".
In painting he uses traditional oil-painting techniques, fashioning first a wooden panel covered in linen and oil jesso. Williams uses many layers of opaque and transparent Dutch oil paint to create the highly luminous images.
For years, Kit Williams had his incredibly detailed works displayed at the Portal Gallery in London, but no longer regularly displays there.
As well as his best-known book "Masquerade", Williams wrote "The Bee on the Comb", a puzzle book with a bee theme.
In 1985 Kit Williams designed the "Wishing Fish Clock", a centrepiece of the Regent Arcade shopping centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. Other clocks designed by Williams can be found in Telford Shopping Centre and in the Midsummer Place section of Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre. He has also designed the Dragonfly Maze for Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds.
Williams continues to paint figurative art at his studio in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
Juliet
Impudent Encounter
Hedgehog
Song of Summer
Once and Future King
Riverbank
Advancing Ripe Harvest
Eucharist
Orrery
The Princess and the Pea
Patience and the Passing of Time
Salamander
Triptych
Badger
Distress Call
Brown Hairstreak
Mistle toe Oak
Flora
Annunciation
Patterned Plate
Life boat Girl
No Ball
Musca Domestica
Reflection
Birdcage
In the Garden
Firmament
Watching the Swallows Go
Swing
Quotations:
“I became a painter because I was a painter. But I always knew I could do it. And thinking visually was useful in physics, and I spent my time building television sets and sending up rockets. When I left school - without any O-levels - my mother was so fed up she sent me off to join the Navy.”
"Young creative people, that's the challenge to them."
"I had not remembered it being as delicate as it is... Then when I picked it up the little bells jingled, and it sparkled in a way that I had forgotten as well."
Kit Williams is married to his second wife Eleyne Williams. They met on a train in September 1980 and married three months later. Today Kit and Eleyne Williams live in a tiny cottage in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.