Julian Williams
Artist

“Where Spirits Mingle in Time and Space” - An exhibition of dance drawings by Julian Williams

About the artist: 1981 – 1987 Julian Williams made his living though selling his drawings and etchings from a market store in Covent Garden, in 1986 he founded Two Bad Mice Publishers.

1987 – 2008 Julian has made his living through running Two Bad Mice but drawing has remained his private passion. Julian is enthusiastic to put on this exhibition because he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with the public and to find out how the public react to his drawings and thoughts about art

The artist writes: “Take a moment to reflect about how remarkable this is: In January I expressed my enjoyment of watching a dancer rehearsing by scribbling some marks on the flat surface of a piece of paper. Here you are in May looking at those marks. If I have done my job well you will experience the fleeting movements that I saw 4 months earlier and I hope you will leave the picture with an impression of the dancer I saw; her expression, beauty and grace.

I have often thought that drawing is close to alchemy, putting the souls of my subjects onto paper, trapping their movements with static lines, catching a sense of space on a flat surface. It is almost as if I am trapping the empathy between the people in a rehearsal room.

I have had thirty years to think about what I am doing when I am drawing and how it all works? We all understand there is no magic involved; so we presume it is done with illusions, but what are the nature of those illusions? This is the subject of my small and brief exhibition.

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