Nicholas Charles Williams 

Nicholas Charles Williams is a British artist whose work addresses the drives and forces of human behaviour conveyed through allegory and direct observational painting.

Williams works in relative isolation from his studio - a former lifeboat station in North Cornwall.  His current series of paintings explores Compassion and includes still lifes of mortars and IEDs.

Two paintings by Williams made for scientific analysis examining David Hockney's thesis on the use of optics by the Old Masters have been presented in numerous lectures at major academic institutions and galleries throughout Europe and the USA.  Presentations (led by Dr David G.Stork) have taken place at Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Venice Biennale; The Louvre; National Gallery, London; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Oxford University; Cambridge University; Stanford University; Getty Research Institute; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Solo shows include the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro and Liverpool Cathedral for European Capital of Culture.  In 2001 he was awarded the Hunting Art Prize and in 2008 shortlisted for the Threadneedle Figurative Prize.

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