Denise Williams is a single mother of one. Residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she leads a simple life focusing on family, friends and art. Growing up in Kansas, she began drawing the human figure at age four. Guided by her mother, "an incredible artist herself," she says, she eventually mastered the human form by age twenty. It was not until the seventh grade that she began to draw nude figures and then was asked by the school to attire them, which she did, dressing them in alluring gowns reminiscent of Mythological Goddesses. It was this school’s action that changed her focus from recreating the human figure to displaying all the different interpretations of religious and social ideals in her art.

Working in acrylic, Denise experiments with color and visualization. Though she is accurate in her renderings, when she chooses, she feels that a correct human figure is not the essence of art, but rather, if she conveys an emotion and studies an ideal then she has created art.

Her work is known for its dramatic colors and movement as well as optical illusions which range from finding figures in abstracts to background and body movement as well as expression changes in individual works.

Denise employs Leonardo da Vinci’s technique (in acrylics) applying a base coat and then adding up to 50 or more layers of water color coat consistency over the top, giving her work depth and a break in color where there appears to be none.

All images © Denise Williams, all rights reserved.
Unauthorized use is prohibited.

View more of Denise's work at www.photowebs.com
or at her other website.

Contact Denise at artangel007@juno.com 
or via post at
903 W. Alameda, PMB 122
Santa Fe, NM   87505.

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