Brett Williams
My practice explores emotional states through constructed environments, using
landscape as a site where memory, loss, and introspection converge. Emptied
landscapes, urban solitude, and abandoned pools function as psychological spaces,
suspended between presence and absence.
Painting operates as a process of excavation. Layers are reworked and left visible,
forming emotional sediment that mirrors the instability of memory. Themes of grief,
endurance, and tenderness run through the work, holding beauty and desolation in
uneasy balance.
In December, time spent in the Cederberg prompted a shift in palette and pace.
Removed from familiar rhythms, the landscape encouraged a slower mode of seeing.
Figures and narrative entered the work.
These elements do not resolve the spaces but inhabit them, introducing story, tension,
and human vulnerability. Landscape becomes both setting and witness, holding the
emotional weight of lived experience while offering moments of stillness and
reflection. Through this evolving practice, I seek a form of restoration without
resolution—a quiet return to self
landscape as a site where memory, loss, and introspection converge. Emptied
landscapes, urban solitude, and abandoned pools function as psychological spaces,
suspended between presence and absence.
Painting operates as a process of excavation. Layers are reworked and left visible,
forming emotional sediment that mirrors the instability of memory. Themes of grief,
endurance, and tenderness run through the work, holding beauty and desolation in
uneasy balance.
In December, time spent in the Cederberg prompted a shift in palette and pace.
Removed from familiar rhythms, the landscape encouraged a slower mode of seeing.
Figures and narrative entered the work.
These elements do not resolve the spaces but inhabit them, introducing story, tension,
and human vulnerability. Landscape becomes both setting and witness, holding the
emotional weight of lived experience while offering moments of stillness and
reflection. Through this evolving practice, I seek a form of restoration without
resolution—a quiet return to self
Nationality: South African
