Claudia Williams (artist)
Claudia Williams (August 19, 1933 – June 17, 2024) was a British artist known for large, colorful portraits. She was born in Purley, England, and studied at Eothen School and the Chelsea School of Art, finishing in 1953. She taught part-time and regularly showed her work with Welsh arts groups, including the Arts Council of Wales and Eisteddfod events. Her paintings were included in the 1957 exhibition Contemporary Welsh Painting and Sculpture at the National Museum of Wales.
Williams married fellow artist Gwilym Prichard, and they often exhibited together. In the 1980s they travelled across Europe, living for periods in Skiathos, Greece, and Brittany, France, before returning to Wales in 1999.
She gained international recognition: she won first prize at the Salon de Vannes in 1989 and showed work in Paris and Nantes in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She had solo shows in Paris in 1989 and Amsterdam in 1994. Williams was elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1979 and was an Honorary Fellow of Bangor University in 2002. The National Library of Wales held major retrospectives in 2000 and 2010, and published a book on her Llyn Celyn–inspired pastels in 2014. Her work is in several collections, including Bangor University, Aberystwyth University, Southampton Art Gallery and Newport Museum. She died on June 17, 2024, aged 90.
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