"Summer Sun"
Oil    30" x 30"
 $4000

"Warm Light"
Oil    20" x 16"
 $2000

"Fields of Yellow"
Oil    12" x 16"
 $1200

"River Bend"
Oil    9" x 12"
 $750

"Gone to Seed"
Oil      24" x 30"
$3000

"Tangerine and Blue"
Oil    16" x 20"
 $1200

Born in Washington DC and raised in Virginia, David Williams is a plein air painter. His ideas for paintings come from those things we are all attracted to; rolling fields, a weathered face, a vase with flowers, a brilliant sunset. Williams believes it is the job of the artist to find out what and why they feel for a subject and to convey these ideas within their work.

 Williams began art classes at age 10 in a local, small town craft shop. Here he learned to transform simple shapes into objects such as ducks, boats and cars and to draw the varied  objects from around the shop. Silk flowers, pottery, even papier-mache animals were all suitable subjects. Here too was his earliest introduction to oil painting and plein air.

Over time Williams would enroll in  art classes at Northern Virginia Community College, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Museum Studio School and the Richmond Visual Arts Center.  He has also taken workshops with California colorist and Sergei Bongart student Sunny Apinchapong-Yang.

Today, Williams makes his home in the Virginia Tidewater,  where he lives with artist Sydney Hall and their  cats, Jasper Johns and Frida Kahlo.

When not traveling, Williams can often be spotted painting beside the forests, rivers and tide ponds which grace the area around his home.

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