David Williams
Born in Washington DC and raised in Virginia, David Williams is a plein air landscape and marine painter. His ideas for paintings come from those things we are all attracted to—rolling fields, a weathered face, a vase with flowers, a brilliant sunset. Williams believes it is the job of the artist to find out what and why they feel for a subject and to convey these ideas within their work.
Williams began his professional career as a landscape painter. Small, naturalistic landscapes and larger, almost expressionistic, river scenes comprise the body of his early work. He eventually expanded into still-life and urban scenes and all variety of large scale paintings. While the range of subjects and painting sizes greatly broadened his artistic experience, the call of naturalistic, plein air landscapes was always been his passion.
Williams studied drawing and painting at the Virginia Museum Studio School and the Richmond Visual Arts Center. Workshops with Sergei Bongart proponent Sunny Apinchapong-Yang and Henry Henche student Camille Przewodek have greatly expanded an understanding of color and design.
Today, Williams makes his home in the Virginia Tidewater. When not traveling, Williams can often be spotted painting beside the forests, rivers and tide ponds which grace the area around his home.