Evelyn Williams: Photo by Bruce Bernard
Liverpool Heads (1961) Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
All Night Through (1984) The Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Out of the Forest (1979) Sheffield Museums
Crowd (1978) Ashmolean Museum Oxford
Sea of Faces (1984) Arts Council of Great Britain
Evelyn: A rare glimpse into her studio
Investing in Artists for the Future
Investing in Artists for the Future
The Evelyn Williams Trust
The Trust seeks to support artists at various stages of their career. Its initial emphasis was on women artists and the particular challenges they face. It has also supported drawing practice. Following a period of supporting drawing fellowships in art schools, it has forged a partnership with Drawing Projects UK and Hastings Contemporary in collaboration with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition and has established a biennial Evelyn Willams Drawing Award worth £10,000 to the recipient.
The Trust was founded in 1991, and modestly endowed by the artist. The Trustees are responsible for the care of all works from the estate of Evelyn Williams. Trust activities are funded by sales of work and donations. Purchasing art by Evelyn Williams from the estate will fund artists’ future projects.
2025 Evelyn Williams Drawing Award
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“Evelyn Williams conceives of her figures as depicting aspects of relationships, figurations, perhaps of states of mind and you can move them around because relationships change, feelings change. It is as though she is transposing the novel as an exploration of human contact, the traditional art form for women…But that is too glib. It does not explain the air of unease that fills her work…She has been exploring the hitherto largely unmapped territory of a socially polarized female sensibility and so she belongs to that heroic sisterhood, the Brontes, Viginia Wolff, Sylvia Plath belong to it, who did not take what they were told for granted. And faced up to and tried to analyse the ambiguities inherent in their situation as women and as artists.”
Novelist Angela Carter writing in the periodical Spare Rib
Featured works of the month
Evelyn Williams, Artist
(1929 - 2012)
With exhibitions across her lifetime, in The Whitechapel, Riverside, Sheffield and Manchester City Art Galleries, the Mead Gallery Warwick University, and in commercial Galleries (Agnew’s, Jane England, Martin Tinney in Wales), her work is represented in private collections in the UK, Europe, America and Australia and in UK public collections such as The Ashmolean, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the National Museum of Wales and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
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A selection of works currently available can be seen by scrolling down this page
#883 Study "Mother and Baby" 1 (1995) Charcoal drawing 31 x 31 cm. Price: £350
#87 Woman at a Window 1 (1976) Charcoal drawing 77 x 57 cm. Price £1500
#1095 Moon Flower 1 (2002) Painting. 91 x 91 cm. Price: £3000
Woman at a Window 1
“Only joggers and suicides go down to the sea at dawn.
Behind my sheet of rain-splashed glass I clearly see myself swimming, bravely striking out, determined to cover a distance that will be unrecoverable and only then turning to check my moonface pressed against the window, mouthing goodbye.”
Evelyn Williams