Evelyn Jane Brendan Williams, artist died On This Day 14th November 2012
She was born at 63 Leigham Court Road the daughter of Brendan Williams a journalist and writer and Jennie Jones an opera singer The family also lived at 69a Palace Road
Evelyn Williams achieved a degree of prominence through a John Moores sculpture prize in the Liverpool exhibition of 1961, awarded for a papier-mâché low-relief work, Two Heads, now in the Walker Art Gallery.
The last two decades of Williams's creative life, with barely a day away from her studio into her eighties, were marked by building a painting practice that had as its hinterland the way the three-dimensionality of the reliefs had operated for her earlier in creating the language of her art.
(David Alston)
She was born at 63 Leigham Court Road the daughter of Brendan Williams a journalist and writer and Jennie Jones an opera singer The family also lived at 69a Palace Road
Evelyn Williams achieved a degree of prominence through a John Moores sculpture prize in the Liverpool exhibition of 1961, awarded for a papier-mâché low-relief work, Two Heads, now in the Walker Art Gallery.
The last two decades of Williams's creative life, with barely a day away from her studio into her eighties, were marked by building a painting practice that had as its hinterland the way the three-dimensionality of the reliefs had operated for her earlier in creating the language of her art.
(David Alston)
