Jan Williams, Layer 24/56 a film by Jorge Lizalde documenting process. See more of Jorge’s work Vimeo. Layer 24/ 56 This 4 min 30 sec film documents one layer of 56 coats of lime -wash that I painted onto a gallery wall. Brought up on a farm in the beautiful Brecon Beacons National Park my earliest…
Life in Lime – Protector and cleanser.
Life in Lime – Paintings for display in The Pettigrew, Tearooms at the entrance to Bute Park, Cardiff. For this exhibition I will be showing seven of my sanded lime-wash paintings from 2015. In these paintings I layered many coats of lime-wash allowing the final coat to harden and then sanded the surface with…
Penarth Pavilion Open Art Exhibition – 2016
In March one of my lime-wash paintings was selected for the ‘Penarth Pavilion Open Art Exhibition’ taking place from the 15th April – 11th May. This exhibition welcomed all types of artists, craftspeople, designers, film makers or performers to submit their works. The selectors were looking for original and thought provoking work, that challenged or…
Sept 2014 – New Paintings using Lime-wash.
In the following paintings I am exploring the use of lime-wash as a painting medium. STATEMENT Jan Williams Jan Williams’ paintings explore memory and identity. Painted by layering tinted lime-wash on board, marks are left by the rubbing away of the lime wash layers. Williams’ choice of lime-wash is significant, a memory from her childhood of the…
July 2014 – ‘From the Other Side’- Group Exhibition, MADE Gallery, Roath, Cardiff
In July 2014, The Kings Road Artist Studios held their annual group exhibition at the MADE Gallery in Roath, Cardiff, titled ‘From the Other Side’. Photographs to follow;
April 2014 – ‘Architecture and the Mind’ plus Artist Talk , Talgarth Mill Gallery, Talgarth, Brecon.
ARCHITECTURE & THE MIND: Photographs of a Walk Through Talgarth’s Mid Wales Hospital by Artist Jan Williams Exhibition Launch with talk by the artist. Exhibition continues until Monday 21st April Tues – Sunday, 10-4; Easter, 9.30-4.30 The photographs for this exhibition were taken by artist Jan Williams on a walk through the decaying and partially-ruined buildings…
June 2013- ‘How the Light Gets In’, – Conversations between Art, Science and Health, Group Exhibition, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University Bay Art, Cardiff
‘How the Light Gets In’ was public engagement arts exhibition funded by the Medical Research Council as part of their centenary year. Organised by Jamie Lewis and Julia Thomas from the Medical Research Council Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics the exhibition ran from July 1st to July 6th at Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff. http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/lightgetsin/whatson/index.html#exhibition…
January 2013 – ‘Inside Out’ – (With Andy Short), Llanover Hall Gallery, Canton, Cardiff
For this exhibition I showed the video ‘The Lime-washed Wall’ from my masters Exhibition alongside a selection of my paintings from between 2009 and 2013. photographs to follow;
Marking Diction: 23/11/12 – 16/12/12. Group Exhibition,Made Gallery, Roath, Cardiff
I was invited to take part in this exhibition, curated By Bob Gelsthorpe, where I created more of the ‘All White Paintings’ on the gallery walls echoing the architecture of the space. Photographs to follow;
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