Joan Williams (artist)

{{Short description|Welsh artist, printmaker, watercolourist and teacher}}

{{infobox artist

| honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|RE|RWS|PmC|}}

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| name = Joan Williams

| birth_place = Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales

| birth_date = 1922

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| death_date = {{Death year and age|2002|1922}}

| death_place = Borough Green, Kent, England

| education = {{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}|High Wycombe School of Art|Royal College of Art|Central School of Art}}

| known_for = {{hlist|Printmaking|watercolour|teaching|}}

| elected = {{ubl|item_style={{longitem}}|ARE; RE|ARWS (1971); RWS (1982)|PmC|}}

| website = {{url|https://artuk.org/discover/artists/williams-joan-19222002|Joan Williams – Art UK}}

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Joan Williams {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RE|RWS|PmC|}} (1922–2002) was a Welsh artist, printmaker, watercolourist and teacher,{{Cite web |title=Williams, Joan, 1922–2002 {{!}} Art UK |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/williams-joan-19222002# |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312152451/https://artuk.org/discover/artists/williams-joan-19222002 |archive-date=12 March 2023 |website=Art UK}}{{Cite book |last=Buckman |first=David |title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 |publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company |year=2006 |isbn=978-0953260959 |edition=New and enl. |location=Bristol |language=En |oclc=77011785}} who found inspiration from bleak moorland, marshes, outcrops of rocks & long empty foreshores.{{Cite web |title=Joan Williams {{!}} Folkestone Art Trust |url=https://folkestonearttrust.org.uk/the-collection/joan-williams/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312210645/https://folkestonearttrust.org.uk/the-collection/joan-williams/ |archive-date=12 March 2023 |website=Metropole Art Collection}}

Born in Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Williams attended High Wycombe School of Art, the Royal College of Art and then the Central School of Art.

Head of printmaking at Maidstone College of Art where, amongst others, she taught Richard Spare (1971–74) and Tracey Emin (1983–86),{{Cite web |title=Artist/Maker: Joan Williams - Aberystwyth University School of Art Museums and Galleries |url=http://museum.aber.ac.uk/person/848 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312155547/http://museum.aber.ac.uk/person/848 |archive-date=12 March 2023 |website=Aberystwyth University School of Art Museums and Galleries}} also teaching at Medway College of Art and Shusta College, California.

• Printmakers Council (PmC)
• Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE)
• Royal Watercolour Society (RWS){{Cite web |title=Members {{!}} Royal Watercolour Society |url=https://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/archive/members/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312152231/https://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/archive/members/ |archive-date=12 March 2023 |website=Royal Watercolour Society}}

Illustrated books for Oxford University Press. Living in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and Wateringbury, Kent.