Evelyn Williams: Photo by Bruce Bernard
Liverpool Heads (1961) Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
All Night Through (1984) The Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Out of the Forest (1979) Sheffield Museums
Crowd (1978) Ashmolean Museum Oxford
Sea of Faces (1984) Arts Council of Great Britain
Evelyn: A rare glimpse into her studio
Investing in Artists for the Future
Investing in Artists for the Future
The Evelyn Williams Trust
The Trust seeks to support artists at various stages of their career. Its initial emphasis was on women artists and the particular challenges they face. It has also supported drawing practice. Following a period of supporting drawing fellowships in art schools, it has forged a partnership with Drawing Projects UK and Hastings Contemporary in collaboration with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition and has established a biennial Evelyn Willams Drawing Award worth £10,000 to the recipient.
The Trust was founded in 1991, and modestly endowed by the artist. The Trustees are responsible for the care of all works from the estate of Evelyn Williams. Trust activities are funded by sales of work and donations. Purchasing art by Evelyn Williams from the estate will fund artists’ future projects.
2025 Evelyn Williams Drawing Award
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Eric Butcher
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2025 Evelyn Williams Drawing Award 〰️ Eric Butcher 〰️
“The art world, when Evelyn Williams began her career, was a macho preserve. Since then, there has been the successful feminist revolution, at least in the arts, and the situation has reversed. In art schools female students outnumber the male. Women artists, like Evelyn, who managed to establish themselves before the sea-change, are heroic pioneers. She has blazed a trail in the most universal subject of all, human relationships - en masse, in groups, families, couples or concentrating solitude. She has done this with the vision of a poet and the empathy of a wife, mother and grandmother. The result, as subtle in technique as it is profound in feeling and visionary in scope, has no equivalent.”
Featured works of the month
Evelyn Williams, Artist
(1929 - 2012)
With exhibitions across her lifetime, in The Whitechapel, Riverside, Sheffield and Manchester City Art Galleries, the Mead Gallery Warwick University, and in commercial Galleries (Agnew’s, Jane England, Martin Tinney in Wales), her work is represented in private collections in the UK, Europe, America and Australia and in UK public collections such as The Ashmolean, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the National Museum of Wales and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
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A selection of works currently available can be seen by scrolling down this page
#1166 Study for Lament (Three Heads) 2004. Acrylic and pen on paper. 15 x 15 cms (35 x 35 cms including frame). Signed and inscribed on reverse of frame. Price: £950
Unnumbered. Crowd Study. Undated. Ink and coloured wash on paper. 18 x 19 cms (unmounted). Price: £250
#1223(4). Sea Study. 2006. Oil on canvas. 44 x 39 cms (including frame). Signed and dated on reverse. Price: £1500