Born in 1929, Evelyn Williams went to Summerhill School in Suffolk at the tender age of two and a half.
On her own admission, she attended few lessons, and by the age of 10 filled the majority of her time with drawing. She went on to train at St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art, where she graduated with a first-class diploma, and was awarded the E. Q. Henriques Prize for Drawing.
Rarely not spending a day in the studio, she characterised her work as “inner thoughts, other worlds”, and her intimate paintings are often concerned with the sensitivities of the human predicament.
Her work can be found in many private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Arts Council Collection, the Ashmolean, Oxford and Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum Wales.