§ Evelyn Williams (British 1929-2012) Seven Sisters, 2010 oil on canvas (122cm x 122cm (48in x 48in)) Provenance The Estate of the Artist. Literature Perry, Anthony and Spooner, Cally. A Life's Work: The Art of Evelyn Williams, Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2015, p. 274, illustrated. 'One day I noticed trees were like people, individuals. Then I began to introduce them into my work, but quite late in life. I found that, like people, their growth and happiness depended on how near they were to each other, how exposed to weather and how they aged like people, bending, kneeling, growing old.' (Evelyn Williams) Born in 1929, Evelyn Williams went to Summerhill School in Suffolk at the tender age of two and a half. On her own admission, she attended few lessons, and by the age of 10 filled the majority of her time with drawing. She went on to train at St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art, where she graduated with a first-class diploma, and was awarded the E. Q. Henriques Prize for Drawing. Rarely not spending a day in the studio, she characterised her work as "inner thoughts, other worlds", and her intimate paintings are often concerned with the sensitivities of the human predicament. Her work can be found in many private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Arts Council Collection, the Ashmolean, Oxford and Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum Wales.