Joan Williams

Joan Williams (1922–2002) was a Welsh artist, printmaker, watercolourist and teacher, who found inspiration from bleak moorland, marshes, outcrops of rocks & long empty foreshores. Born in Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Williams attended High Wycombe School of Art, the Royal College of Art and then the Central School of Art. Head of printmaking at Maidstone College of Art where, amongst others, she taught Richard Spare (1971–74) and Tracey Emin (1983–86), also teaching at Medway College of Art and Shusta College, California. Printmakers Council (PmC) Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) Royal Watercolour Society (RWS)