I capture and visualise life as it happens around me. My inspiration comes to me only by looking and keeping an eye out for the off-chance moment of beauty that can be reflected in anything around me. I try and grab those moments either from memory or record it on the fly. Then I use the visual record to flow into a new line of work using a medium that fits what I want to express. Examples of this include my daughter jumping in the waves on a Norfolk beach or drawing in a live concert and translating the emotional flow of the music or painting in the dance studio feeling the dancer’s movement within my own body while connecting that flow into my painting hand. The subject can be anything, but the key is connecting with the subject at a level beyond mere representation. The work is lifeless unless my audience recognises it from their own experience and makes an emotional connection. This only comes from honest interpretation.
Eliza Delite, Burlesque star
110cm x 80cm
Ink Monoprint on Somerset Satin paper (300gsm)
Eliza Delite Ⓒ William Rowsell, 2022
Landscape from improvised flux and flow of the ink
90cm x 60cm
Japanese ink and acrylic inks on Sumi paper
Imagined landcape Ⓒ William Rowsell, 2022
Gaiia movement capture
90cm x 80cm
Acrylic ink on Fabriano paper (300gsm)
Gaiia movement Ⓒ William Rowsell, 2022
Chalk stream
45cm x 30cm
Japanese ink on Sumi paper
Eliza Delite Ⓒ William Rowsell, 2022
Charlotte Spruit playing violin at West Wycombe chamber festival 2022
42cm x 59cm
Colored pencil on paper
Charlotte Spruit playing violin Ⓒ William Rowsell, 2022
Sleep
21cm x 29cm
Watercolour on paper
Sleep Ⓒ William Rowsell, 2022
Floral head
42cm x 59cm
Colored pencil and acrylic inks on paper
Floral headⒸ William Rowsell, 2022
Wallis Power playing cello at Middle Temple Hall
42cm x 59cm
Colored pencil on paper
Wallis Power playing cello at Middle Temple Hall Ⓒ William Rowsell, 2022