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 2016 relocating to Cornwall where she graduated with an MA in 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. Fairytales, folklore, dreams and the subconscious. 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.

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Sleeping Siren Linocut Print by Victoria Lucy Williams

Linocut

Animal Folklore by Victoria Lucy Williams

Watercolour

Deer And The Dove by Victoria Lucy Williams

Watercolour

Spring Morning by Victoria Lucy Williams

Acrylic painting

Swan In The Willows by Victoria Lucy Williams

Acrylic painting

Two For Joy by Victoria Lucy Williams

Acrylic painting

Koala Bear Mother And Baby by Victoria Lucy Williams

Etching / Engraving

Starry Morning by Victoria Lucy Williams

Etching / Engraving

Bison And Starlings by Victoria Lucy Williams

Etching / Engraving

Starling Linocut Print by Victoria Lucy Williams

Linocut

Ursa Minor Little Bear by Victoria Lucy Williams

Etching / Engraving

May Morning by Victoria Lucy Williams

Acrylic painting