{"id":2469,"date":"2013-10-14T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2013-10-14T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T22:39:07","slug":"artchat-blog-interview-37-adrienne-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=2469","title":{"rendered":"ArtChat [Blog Interview #37] \u2013 Adrienne Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"icon_link\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=2469\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>A graduate of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffith.edu.au\/visual-creative-arts\/queensland-college-art\" target=\"_blank\">Queensland College of Art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/AdrienneWilliams.html\" target=\"_blank\">Adrienne Williams<\/a> paints beautiful depictions of the Australian Bush and Fauna. Her work has a tranquil and calming quality that is indicative of artists from the <a href=\"http:\/\/australia.gov.au\/about-australia\/australian-story\/heidelberg-school\" target=\"_blank\">Heidelberg school<\/a>, while stylistically totally different she captures the essence of Australia in her stylistic approach to landscape.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2508\" alt=\"Adrienne Williams\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ01.jpg\" width=\"760\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ01.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ01-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><strong>AC: Describe your art in a sentence.<br \/>\n<\/strong>AW: My art is plein air landscape scribbles and scratchings which develop into collagraphs and oil paintings in the studio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: Who or what inspired you to become an artist?<br \/>\n<\/strong>AW: When I was young the world of art was like a foreign country, but my beautiful mum was a huge nurturer of my early scribbles and scratchings. Through art college and my early design career I didn\u2019t feel I had anything mature to say in paint, but in my early 30\u2019s I met a great mentor, painter John McConachie, in Brisbane and he inspired me greatly with his thinking, his work and his dedication to his painting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC:\u00a0 Why do you paint the scenes you do?<br \/>\n<\/strong>AW: I\u2019ve always felt really at home in landscape, and most of my spare time and holidays are spent outdoors. Early bushwalking pursuits evolved into a passion for the environment and I do feel really compelled to paint about this, but in a gentle way. This current series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/AdrienneWilliams2013.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Closer to Home<\/i><\/a>, is exploring the growing of food alongside areas of natural beauty that I see first hand in my new home in the North Burnett.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2510\" alt=\"Adrienne Williams\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ03.jpg\" width=\"760\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ03.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ03-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><strong>AC: What music do you listen to while painting?<br \/>\n<\/strong>AW: I don\u2019t seem to be able to settle with music playing and discovered years ago that audio books keep me completely grounded at the easel, and public libraries now have a fantastic download system for audio books which Is handy when you live 50km from the library. When I\u2019m tiring in the afternoons I\u2019ll put on \u2018old\u2019 music that I know all the words to, and will sing at the top of my lungs to the dog. Lately she\u2019s been hearing my interpretation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ech6pZoBJ4\" target=\"_blank\">Van\u2019s \u2018Astral Weeks\u2019<\/a>, and my very bad <a href=\"http:\/\/beegees.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bee Gees<\/a> falsetto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: Tell our readers something about yourself that may surprise them?<br \/>\n<\/strong>AW: In contrast to the \u2018gentle\u2019 mentioned above, I have a mid-life crisis 650 Suzuki V-Strom I bought in 2006. I haven\u2019t been on it for a year, but after the opening at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hill Gallery<\/a> I\u2019m going to dust it off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: What is your favourite quote or saying?<br \/>\n<\/strong>AW: \u2018If you\u2019re not working hard, you\u2019re not painting\u2019<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au\/collection\/works\/?artist_id=smart-jeffrey\" target=\"_blank\"> Jeffrey Smart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: If you could work with any other artist from any era who would it be and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nAW: It would have to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claudemonetgallery.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monet<\/a>, the way he saw colour and light\u2026 there\u2019s a lot to learn from that.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2509\" alt=\"Adrienne Williams\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ02.jpg\" width=\"760\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ02.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AQ02-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><br \/>\n\u00a9\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">www.redhillgallery.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=499790883388518\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=2469\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"150\" action=\"recommend\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareA graduate of the Queensland College of Art Adrienne Williams paints beautiful depictions of the Australian Bush and Fauna. 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