About Victoria Lucy Williams

Victoria Lucy Williams is a British born artist and illustrator based in Cornwall, UK. Graduating from Southampton Solent during 2008 with a BA in Fine Art and later in life relocating to Falmouth, Cornwall where she graduated with a Master's with distinction in Art, MA Illustration: Authorial Practice during summer 2018 from Falmouth University.

Victoria works as a freelance children’s illustrator and artist by the sea in Cornwall. She is also a diver with a keen interest in the natural world.My creative practice revolves around my love and keen interest for the natural world and the inhabitants. Our human - animal connection more than human world, and the biophilia experience.

More recently, I have been investigating the narratives around eco fables and folktales to see how they can be retold to encompass modern day challenges and challenge our attitudes to the natural world.

Edward O. Wilson theorises in his book ‘The Biophilia Hypothesis’ that it is unlikely that mankind can be severed from its original animal human relations. Wilson puts forwards the theory of gene culture coevolution that occurred through the evolutionary time of deep history. Repetitive exposure to potential threats causing emotional responses from animal visitations, these became weaved into story telling and metaphors.