Publisher's Synopsis
Paul Howard Williams (1954-81) ArtWorkYoung British Artist 1970's London&Paris With most of Pauls artwork there were no titles, only the materials, unsigned, as if not dispensing with any piece, just, yet... These are (mostly) abstract expressionist pieces, of their time, and also ahead of his time. Abstract and expressionist (as in not figurative), they 'can be whatever you want them to be'. Yet, there are many, many figurative references, hints and forms, that are also expressive. As the viewer takes them, how they appear, as faces, a skull, or in the built landscapes, as they chime with the viewer, clearly of Paul's worldview, and life, also of the viewer. There are wonderful vignettes. Like a milk bottle, Parisian window shutters, a deckchair to see the world, the universe, from. There is abstract Landscape, Universal Space, and the felt Transcendental. Pictures, often with near perfect, but never of course perfect, geometric shapes, trapezium and especially circles, or ellipses. Folding and gluing of paper and card as two to three and more multi-dimensional constructions, Paul would use newspaper print, discarded cigarette packets, and found packaging, plain brown or grey paper, and the blackest, reddest, bluest of colour. Occasionally green and yellow. With overdrawn marks whether of chalk, gauche, or paint, made deliberately, and over an indefinite period of time. So that the finished, discarded pieces appear as if unfinished, as every artwork must, leaving room for the viewer, the appreciator... When I'm 64! 2018. The Movie. f/b Paul Williams Artwork 1954-81 Enjoy...You Tube: Landscapes Transcendental Spaces: Collage Painting Drawing Construction Sketches. Apparition Explosion Faces in the crowd Windows: Women sitting/playing a flute Paris shutters: painting drawing folded paper constructions overmarked or found as marked card/packaging Deckchair on the Titanic Earth Sky Depend de Vous Le Dancer1 Dancer2 Disque Bleu Japanese print painted copied with from originals Black/White/Grey on Brown paper packaging: Green Blue Space 1 & 2 Part lot of 15 parcels Door/Wall/Fenced-in Insect/Dancer unfolding or collapsing sketches Buildings built environment sketches Matisse Gauloise Longue Caporal L'HUMANITE...changer... Worm bullet-face emerging Milk bottle ledge shutters weather (Paris) Arched Window Battleground flag Landscape blood-lightning Ellipse paintings: Bus-Stop with Moon Cataclysm Cellular Cataclysm Earth Sun cataclysm Egg Moon cataclysm Ellipse tryptych Door/Wall photo with ellipse Starting/finishing-post ellipse painting Tower Block Skull Sun Moon Sea ellipses Landscape Leviathan red spot blood rock sea... Coat and scarf Tom Allen Centre poster 1982 Portrait of Claire Bear Self Portrait Paul Williams (1954-81) (2) Walthamstow Art College 1970-72Chelsea College of Art 1972-75Newham Community Murals 1975-81
