Lesley Williams studied Textile Design at Nottingham Trent University and later gained an M.A. in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University.
I am intrigued by what lies beyond the surface, the spaces around a subject make up the whole. Colour and translucence are at the heart of my painting. The colour work of Rothko, Bonnard and Redon are of great interest to me. I paint semi-abstract compositions that select from gardens, water and landscape, the colour, movement and forms that suggest a feeling for a specific moment.
'Colour does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.'
Mood is suggested through colour, there is spontaneity in the mark-making accompanied by ideas of fragility and scale.
Education
Nottingham Trent University, 1981
BA(Hons) Textile Design
MA Leeds Metropolitan University 1995
Forthcoming/Current
East Coast Open 2025, Scarborough Art Gallery
York Open Studios 2025
Zillah Bell Gallery 2025, Summer Show 2025
The Leaping Hare Gallery, Easingwold 2025
Exhibitions
The Gallery Malton
Wath Court Gallery, Hovingham
Yorkshire Arboretum
Inspired by... Gallery, Danby
Cramer & Bell Art, London
Studio Eleven Gallery, Hull
Longitude Gallery Clitheroe
Harlow Carr Harrogate
York District Hospital
Kunsthuis Gallery - Crayke
Maidenbridge Art Centre - Tatham, Lancaster
York Open Studios
Norman Rea Gallery York University
Leaping Hare Art Gallery - Easingwold
Ripley Castle
Look Gallery - Helmsley
Helmsley Art Centre
Rural Arts - Thirsk
Merchant Taylors' Hall - York
York Cemetery Centenary
Grays Court - York
Scampston Hall - North Yorkshire
Saltbox Gallery - Helmsley
Paintings for Hospitals
Art of Care - Edinburgh
Shine - York
Design Exhibition - Olympia
Leeds Metropolitan Art Gallery
Shandy Hall - Coxwold
Zillah Bell - Thirsk
Pyramid Gallery - York
Stonegate Gallery - York