Maggie Driscoll Williams relinquished the safety of her teaching post in the mid 80's to concentrate entirely on her painting. She has built her reputation for richly coloured pointillist landscapes and evocations of the sea executed with bravura handling exhibiting widely in the majority of top Welsh Galleries and is now finding a market for her work over the border in England. Currently she is working in acrylic on fabriano paper.

 

I find myself constantly drawn to the sea for both inspiration and solace. The rythmic sound, the ebb and roll, are as important to me as the visual presence. I never tire of coastal walks, not one stretch of coastline is ever the same on consecutive visits. Each renewed acquaintance brings fresh colour harmonies, different quirks, eccentric shapes and splashes. Stormy days are the most rewarding, intense chiaroscuro of rendered sky giving brilliant pools, which appear suddenly for a transitory moment on the least expected and restless surface of the sea.