David Simon Gallery

Quentin Williams is one of the generation of students from the West of England College of Arts
in the late 1940s and early 1950s, who emerged with a great love of drawing and its role in the
craft of painting. He is a quite exceptional draughtsman and this talent gives shape, form and
structure to all his work.

This exhibition affords a rare opportunity to see a body of his work taken from the traditional
subjects; the life figure, still-life and landscape. To each of these he brings a strength and power
which is uniquely his own.

The paintings make considerable demands on the viewer as they are not produced casually but
thoughtfully, are critically observed and executed with great attention to detail - nothing is left to
chance.

Do enjoy this special exhibition of recent work by my good friend and colleague.
Neil Murison R.W.A.


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Quentin Williams
23 October - 22 November 2008

Quentin Williams was born and has lived all his life in Bristol. He was trained in drawing and painting at the Royal West of England Academy. Not effectively diverted by any 'ground-breaking' isms, he has confirmed in the objective realist tradition. He draws and paints directly, or indirectly, from actuality in pencil, monochrome wash, oils and very occasionally gouache or watercolour. He has worked abroad and exhibited nationally and internationally. Quentin Williams is also an art-historian and theorist, having published articles in The British Journal of Aesthetics, Leonardo, Art Review, etc., contributed to Philip Steadman's 'Vermeer's Camera' and contrived the axiom explaining the distorted perspective in Carel Fabritius' "The Music Dealer". His main interest is in 17th Century Dutch painting and in several individual European and American painters. First exhibition with David Simon Gallery 2008.
		A Towering Breaker, oil on canvas
		70 x 92cm



Palettes and Fan, oil on panel	Snappers and Knives, oil on panel	Binocularia, oil
76 x 102cm	49 x 58cm	42 x 52cm


Beach at Arcachon, oil on panel	Beach at La Ciotat, oil on panel	Rhossili Off-Season, oil on panel
71 x 86cm	39 x 46cm	36 x 46cm


Before the Spy House, oil on panel	The Holy City (Clifton), oil on panel	Ruins at Kingsdown, oil on panel
74 x 61cm	66 x 71cm	55 x 45cm


Glove and Fish, oil on canvas	The Chinese Hat, oil on panel	Alarm and Reproach, oil on canvas
59 x 59cm	36 x 46cm	41 x 41cm


An Odalisque, oil on panel	Rhiannon Asleep, oil on panel	The Missing Sink, oil
82 x 57cm	52 x 10cm	123 x 100cm


Still Life with Modigliani, oil on canvas	Yellowknife River Falls, oil on panel	Wok and Slingbacks, oil
69 x 68cm	126 x 113cm	40 x 50cm


Back View of Faye, oil on panel		The Duchess of Bleakins, oil on panel
61 x 51cm		36 x 46cm

Prices: £300.00 - £5500.00

Quentin Williams is one of the generation of students from the West of England College of Arts in the late 1940s and early 1950s, who emerged with a great love of drawing and its role in the craft of painting. He is a quite exceptional draughtsman and this talent gives shape, form and structure to all his work. This exhibition affords a rare opportunity to see a body of his work taken from the traditional subjects; the life figure, still-life and landscape. To each of these he brings a strength and power which is uniquely his own. The paintings make considerable demands on the viewer as they are not produced casually but thoughtfully, are critically observed and executed with great attention to detail - nothing is left to chance. Do enjoy this special exhibition of recent work by my good friend and colleague. Neil Murison R.W.A.


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