WILLIAM PACKER AT THE BLUE BALL
Anemone & Rudbeckia
2023, oil on linen, 46 x 38cm
£2,400
Hawkbit & Anemone
2023, oil on linen, 46 x 38cm
£2,400
William has dedicated his life to the visual arts variously as Teacher, Critic, Curator and Author - and always as Painter.
For the lasy 30 years William has focused on still-life - with regular detours into PORTRAITURE , LANDSCAPE and COLLAGE documenting the people he has met and places he has visited in his career. There are common threads, in terms of formal composition, structure and colour palette - not least his constant and enduring commitment to painting and he continues to produce work from his Brixton studio.
'The greater mystery is ever there, of quite how that dab of paint on the canvas becomes, by some alchemy, something quite other than itself'
Alongside painting, William’s parallel careers as Art Critic, for many years for the Financial Times, and teacher at art schools around the country made him an established figure in the British art world. He has curated numerous shows, written innumerable catalogue essays and served on many selection committees. He is a member of the New English Art Club and and Honorary member of the Royal Society of British Artists and his work is represented in the National Portrait Gallery, Sheffield City Art Galleries and many private collections. Turning 81 this year provides a perfect opportunity to acknowledge the breadth of his artistic achievement.
‘As a schoolboy I remember envying those of my fellows who had any idea of what they wished to do and be: I had no idea. Perhaps I still don't, for in an odd way I sense that my life in art found me'.