Constance Williams

Artist Bio

Born in Somerset England, Constance became enamored with all the arts from an early age. By the age of eight, Constance was an accomplished pianist, played multiple instruments and already oil painting. Her move to Asheville NC in 2004 was the impetus to propel her professional career as a full-time artist.

In 2015, she added relatively new medium called alcohol ink to her repertoire, which she used with her encaustic paint medium. “Self-taught, I blend color batches of acid-free alcohol ink; a relatively new pigmented alcohol-based paint medium. I can create extraordinarily vivid or subtle color with intricate detail and delicate restraint. I use unique non-porous surfaces to paint on, such as coated aluminum, Yupo paper, transparent polycarbonate, and on top of encaustic paintings. I use compressed air to manipulate the medium into my unique, colorful curvilinear forms. The delicate timing of ‘when and where’ to move or add the medium is crucial to my process since there is limited time before evaporation and drying, which causes it to either subtlety blend or have detailed flowing ridges.”

“CIRCULARITY & EVOLUTIONARY best describes the unique rounded forms and often colorful patterning themes, like a DNA signature it is ever present throughout my various mediums and continually evolves. I compose abstracted elements that represent without depicting, usually extracting from past experiences that happen around six weeks prior, while simultaneously creating anew. I am endlessly stimulated to experiment, originate, and employ new ways to use and combine mediums and substrates to develop and shape my conversation into a re-imagined rhythmic visual dialogue.”