Warren Williams was born in Neath in 1975 and studied Painting and Drawing at Swansea Institute from 1995 to 1999. He won the student prize at the Welsh Artist of the Year exhibition at St David’s Hall, Cardiff in 2002 and had solo shows at the Mission Gallery, Swansea in 2003 and Attic Gallery in 2004 and 2006

Williams work continues to reflect his interest in the prime matter – the paint itself. He has journeyed down the artist’s traditional route – the first being line, the second tone and the third, colour. He has researched the now often neglected technicalities of his craft looking not only to understand the nature of the pigments but the medium that carries them. Indeed, his forthcoming exhibition sees his first venture into egg tempera. He does not imitate the old masters, their skill and their technique, but he is learning from them.

For this exhibition, he has produced a series of paintings which are shown alongside his drawings. Created over a period of eighteen months, his subject is himself, his family and friends.

Williams' paintings are rooted in the mundane everyday aspects of living. At one level there is nothing happening – there are friends seated, mother is drying her hair, conversations are about to start or have just ended. But there is nothing ordinary about these paintings. The titles hint at much more. These paintings have a power, a hidden narrative. There is emotion just below the surface. A single glance can have so much meaning, as it contains the memory of all that has gone before. He has once again created an arena where so much has happened up to that pausing moment.

Williams approach to his work is courageously different from the majority of his contemporaries who eschew paint as a medium, which makes his chosen course a difficult and sometime remote one. Indeed it is in this commitment to an art rooted in line, tone and colour and composition, combined with the sound technical practices of the old masters that set him aside from many of today’s artists who consider everything is subordinate to the "concept".

As he says himself, "With these works I wanted to create an arena where nothing is happening, the pausing moment, when something is about to, or already has, happened; the moment of entrance or exit, of access and egress"