Efua Williams

Efua Williams graduated in 1998 from Canterbury College of Art with a First Class degree in Fine Art. She worked as an Art teacher at Simon Langton Girls’ School in Canterbury for 30 years.

Efua had a residency at Sissinghurst and was part of the group exhibition,”Little Acorns” there in 2023. She was featured in Sky TV’s Landscape Artist of the Year 2022 as a shortlisted finalist. Her work has been exhibited at the Mall Galleries, London in “New English Art” 2021 and “Women Artists Annual Exhibition” 2024, and at Linden Hall in the Group Winter Show 2024. Her work is exhibited and sold at Sondes Tea House in Selling on an on-going basis.

In this collection of work focussing on women from around the world featured in old National Geographic travel guides, Efua has chosen to use everyday materials such as felt-tipped pens and dabbers (bingo card pens), which produce a transparent colour that contrasts with the opacity of the oil paint she usually uses.

Efua says “The ladies reflect my interest in change, village life and life of women in the recent and not so recent past. I enjoy the drama of their headwear and the shapes of the clothes they lived and worked in as well the sturdiness of their shoes”.

Efua began producing work in earnest outside her teaching commitments in 2020, working in sketchbooks and revisiting the artists she loved when she was at school, such as William Nicholson, Holbein and Hopper.