Charles Williams

Charles Williams (born 16 March 1965) is a British artist. He is a founding member of the Stuckist art group and a member of the New English Art Club.

Formerly Programme Director of Fine Art at Canterbury Christ Church University, he was a PhD scholar there between 2018 and 2021, completing an autoethnographic investigation into his painting in 2023. This year he was elected President of the Royal Watercolour Society. Exhibitions include RA Summer Exhibition, Hunting Prize, Lynn Painter Stainers, Threadneedle Prize, The Marmite Prize, and the John Moore’s. Galleries include Lily Zeligmann Gallery in the Netherlands, John Martin of London, Charlie Dutton Gallery, and solo shows at, among others, the Bakersfield Museum of Modern Art, Cal., USA. He is currently represented by New Arts Projects in London.

Williams is a painter who also writes. In his work, the possibility of presence in the two- dimensional arena of painting wrestles with scale and material. Narrative, surface, and image are knitted together in an unfolding improvisation, taking in his hapless attempts to thrive in the Art World, from being a West End Gallery Artist to teaching art in care homes and being Louise Bourgeois’ most inept studio assistant. Recent work has taken him into the world of therianthropy. He works alone in his studio, but sometimes in collaboration with self- styled con-artist Dan Devlin.