Susan Williams PGCE. Ba(Hons)
I was born and bought up in Birmingham England, but all my grand parents were from South Wales, indeed my Great Grandfather the great Isaac Pritchard walked from Cardiff to Dudley with the Drovers in the 1870s. This was a common practice at this time as the costal communities were migrating to the Industrial Midlands looking for work in the prosperous new steel and manufacturing industries of the Midlands.
I attended Loughborough Collage of Art and Design, where I developed and studied my interest in organic form and landscape. I made clay forms, prints and paintings that were influenced by moving cloud formations and the strata of the landscape.
After college I also moved to Wales to live by the sea, because I had become fascinated with the eternal energy and movement within the sea. As I observed these movements I became more and more absorbed by the energy, movement, and the shapes and colours that were momentarily formed , and then completely gone. These observations, photographs and sketches inspired a series of paintings called “I Sea“. These paintings, and internet images were exhibited throughout North Wales at Bangor Museum, Theatre Clwyd Mold, and The Education Gallery, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno.
During this period I also became involved with drawing and sketching the movement of human form, examining and recording dancing movements from one pose to another. I also endeavoured to visually relate the dancing human form with the moments of reflected light on the landscape.
This is particularly challenging because as the viewer watches, the structure remains static while he reflected light is instantaneously destroyed, these paintings represent a conglomerate of coloured moments.
I have recently constructed a piece of work on the internet that captured individual moments in time by using static cameras to observe different moments, but these connections have since dissolved. I am now taking these moments into the medium of print, the Printing Plate representing the static structure of the Welsh landscape and the coloured prints the different reflected light moments in time.
I enjoy working directly in the Welsh landscape, where the peace and tranquillity of the Welsh landscape can often rapidly change dramatically, into a mysterious landscape of wild turbulence and untameable emotions.
I complement my time spent in the natural Welsh landscape with my studio based work in the James St Studio, Llandudno.
Light on Water