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this difference - in the realization of pictorial space - which gives Williams’ landscapes more power. The viewer can return again and again to enter these landscape paintings.
The magic occurs when paint becomes alive as space. The painting’s meaning is then felt on many levels. The wholeness of this kind of painting endures forever.
For this viewer, because the backgrounds of the still life paintings remain predominately backgrounds for the focal point of the richly painted and no less seen and loved objects or flowers, they stand as pleasant, well painted paintings.
Williams’ brush easily relates his delight in leaf and petal forms or the richness of cobalt blue glass or glaze. The simplicity of the background allows us to focus, as the painter has, on the subject at hand. This doesn’t take away from the visual as well as emotional satisfaction of .the focal point, but does leave this viewer caught only in that focal point, rather than transcending the subject and experiencing the painting as one integrated object on its own.
“Hot Bells” is a colorfully brilliant observation of summer peppers, powerful in the immediacy of the artist’s touch.
David Williams’ “Still Life and Virginia Landscapes” can be seen at Long View Gallery on Main Street in Sperryville until Sept. 24. Gallery hours are Thursday - Monday 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
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