about Bruce Williams

Bruce graduated from Kent Institute of Art & Design at Canterbury in 1990, and spent almost twenty years as a mural artist and set painter working within the film industry and BBC. He now paints full time and holds Masterclasses on his approach. Bruce sells his work from his studio gallery in the beautiful seaside town of Whitstable, Kent, as well as through various galleries in the UK and abroad. Studio visits can be arranged by appointment, and his pieces are for sale this website.

Bruce has exhibited extensively, and is the recipient of numerous awards. His work has been curated into Royal Academy Summer Shows (2015, 2014): Royal Society of Marine Artists (2017, 2016, 2015): New English Arts Club, Mall Galleries (2017): Discerning Eye (2015, 2012) and at London galleries including The Riverside Gallery, Thomson’s Gallery, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters,  Square Gallery and more.

He has received awards including The Russell & Chapple Prize, RSMA (2016): Winsor and Newton Best Painting RSMA and Winsor and Newton Best Non Member Painting ROI (both 2015): Building Design Award, London Borough of Bromley (2003): Best Stand, Top Draw, Earls Court (2002): Direct Support Grant, South East Arts (1994): Arts Purchase Prize, South East Arts (1991): Winsor and Newton Painting Prize (1990): Canterbury College Mural Prize (1989), etc.

Bruce now owns the Bruce Williams Art Gallery at 66 High Street, Whitstable,  Kent and has an ongoing exhibition of his own and guest artists’s work there throughout the year.

“After graduating from Kent Institute of Art & Design at Canterbury in 1990, I spent almost twenty years as a mural artist and set painter working within the film industry and BBC. I now paint full time in my studio behind my gallery bruce williams art and run a weekly 2 hour evening class. I sell my work from my studio gallery at 66 High St. Whitstable, in the beautiful seaside town of Whitstable, Kent. I still show work in various galleries in the UK and abroad, including the RA Summer Show. The gallery is open from 11 – 5pm (Sundays by appointment), work is also for sale from this website and can be delivered to you. The following is a short documentary video about me and my work (6mins). The front gallery is available for hire.”

Currently my work is figurative. I often paint directly in the landscape and on the seafront, sometimes developing the theme in the studio, referring to studies, sketches and photographs…The subject matter is a crucial starting point: familiar landscapes and seascapes; my family; the fungi I pick in the autumn for the still life work. Then trying to distil what I see and to reduce this to simple shapes, colours and bold vigorous mark making, using oil paint, drawing and redrawing.” – Bruce Williams

The following is a short documentary video about Bruce Williams and his work (6mins 45sec).