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.