DYLAN WILLIAMS - SOFTLY THROUGH DARKNESS

Taymour Grahne Projects is pleased to present Softly through Darkness, an online solo show by London based Welsh artist Dylan Williams, opening virtually on November 3.

Dylan Williams' work has always been born from a deep connection to his surroundings, mostly from the scenery of Wales; drawn from a deep connection to the hills and fields and forest he has walked through all his life. Using the landscape to explore his roots beyond the realm of sight to the environment and other metaphysical connections, spirits, energy and dreams belonging to the land.

Williams' paintings attempt to summon the meditative nature of the landscape to contemplate the transcendental, piercing through the hills to the language of the cosmos. The artist is attempting to consolidate these streams of lived and inherited experiences with the landscape into calm, muted works; with the minimal application of the paint attempting to aspire to the quiet, muteness of the natural world.

More recently he has been concerned with working from scenes from his everyday life in London, using his surroundings as a portal to creating dreamlike imagery.  

Please click here for Dylan William's CV.

Dylan Williams (b.1995) is a Welsh painter based in London. His paintings are unearthed from the Welsh hills where he grew up and drawn from the surroundings on walks, cycles and swims. Deeply concerned with a metaphysical connection to the natural world, his work attempts to fuse transcendental and universal encounters into meditative, calm imagery of the landscape. Dylan studied at Swansea College of Art, and is based at Elysium Gallery Studios, London. He has shown in group and solo shows across the UK and in the USA, where his work is held in major private collections. In 2022, he won the Glynn Vivian award at the BEEP Painting Biennale, and in October/November of 2023, he will take part in the Freeman residency in Charlottesville, Virginia.