jamesdavidwilliams

foreword

James is a painter who specialises in acutely observed figurative images. They are highly detailed pictures which are a celebration of the ‘mundane and ordinary’. Using items such as matchsticks and other familiar motifs, James develops the tightly articulated spaces in such a way that the imagery attains an almost ‘trompe l’ oeuil’ quality. However, the resulting pictures are far from indiscriminate transcriptions of reality; they are in fact carefully constructed pictorial spaces and are very much a celebration of painting as a means of scrutiny and investigation.

John Devane
Head of Department of Design & Visual Arts, Coventry School of Art & Design