Dionne
Williams

A highly energetic and lively artist, Dionne Williams' passion lies in exploring human emotion. Focusing on creating abstract portraits, her use of colour and swift movement allows her to represent inner feelings directly onto the canvas.

Her most significant series explores the effects of trauma — the inner pain that is often hard for the sufferer to express. By exploring sadness, isolation, shame, numbness, anxiety, shock, hopelessness, guilt, disconnection and fear, Dionne helps raise awareness and confronts a very real and raw aspect of the self.

Some of her works are created using just a finger and acrylics. This connection is important to the outcome of her paintings. Dionne deems it necessary to connect her own emotional experiences directly onto the canvas or paper, without having anything block the process.

Exposing the darker elements of being human, Dionne hopes to highlight the stigma attached to mental health issues by creating bold, visceral and at times troubling images.

Three bodies of work

Dionne works across three distinct collections: seascapes and landscapes that capture the raw drama of the natural world; abstract portrait work exploring mental health and identity; and an ongoing series of charcoal animal originals under the name Marika Vanagh Art.

Get in touch

Dionne has studios in Dorset, UK. She welcomes enquiries about viewings, commissions and collaborations.

Email [email protected]  —  or find her on Instagram as @dionnewilliamsartist and @marikavanaghart.

Call +44 7843 661 530 — for coffee and cake.