Lawrie Williamson - Striking Moments

Lawrie Williamson was born in 1932. He was educated in Derbyshire and at the age of 16 won a major exhibition to study at Nottingham College of Art, followed by Nottingham University and L’Ecole des Beaux Arts.

His subjects vary widely and are drawn from a wealth of experience and observation.  The common factor is light; a beery pub interior, launching a curragh on the beach or views of the Grand Canal or Florence. Each is filled with a light of its own which remains undimmed even in a darkening room.

Winner of the Cornellisen Prize and twice winner of the Stanley Grimm Prize at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and also the Canson Prize at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. He paints in many media but mostly oils.

Twelve years ago he moved to Ireland with his wife Gill who also paints. Each has a generous studio on the side of a hill in County Tipperary where there are quietly amazing sights.

‘Over the years I have known the man and his work, I have come to realise that they are one and the same. Both reveal, illuminate and delight. As for the paintings themselves I can do no better than quote the art critic and historian, Brian Sewell: “Few . . . handle the medium of oil painting as well as Lawrie Williamson”.’                                 Anthony Turner friend , agent