Anna Williams

Sanctuary, cast bronze and ceramic flowers and foliage with 200-year old reclaimed local wood

A life-sized bronze fox curls up in repose encircled by a ring of ceramic flowers interwoven with thorns.  The wooden pedestal is from 100-year old wood salvaged from homes being remodelled in the artist's neighbourhood.  This work hovers between a celebration and acknowledgement of the fragility and grounding nature of home and also a memento mori.

Click here for more work by this artist

Urban Migration, individual flying pigeon sculptures in cast bronze with acrylic paint. Suitable for indoors or outdoors, 8" x 20" x 12".  One currently available; priced individually.

Click here for more work by this artist

Boreal Visitors life-sized bronze sculptures of foxes, running and reclining.  Edition 1 of 3 has sold; contact the gallery regarding a new commission.  

Click here for more work by this artist

Otus and Ephialtes, 2019. Linocut 16 x 22 in, edition of 4, printed on Arnhem 1618.
Excerpt “Otus and Ephialtes” by Anna Williams
Breaths catch
Blood pools
The brothers are consumed with a new hunger.
Practiced predators,
They split and flank.
Aim and launch.
From either side of the glade
The sing of spears cleaves the silence
Artemis leaps.
Reflected horror glints on polished blade
A mirrored death.

Printed on the artist's ingenious home-made printing press (made of a car jack, melamine and oak). Created for her upcoming solo exhibition Untold Stories I once Wished Lost at the Karsh-Masson Gallery (re-scheduled for 2021).

An Untamed Bond, Part 2 of 5 of The Allegory of Atalanta, linocut, 2020.  Edition of 6, printed on Arnhem 1618, 16 x 22 inches.

When Atalanta was born, her father had hoped for a boy and so he left her on a mountainside to die of exposure as was the practice with unwanted girls or disabled children. Artemis, in the form of a shebear, found her and suckled her. She was raised as one of Artemis’ huntresses.

Printed on the artist's ingenious home-made printing press (made of a car jack, melamine and oak). Created for her upcoming solo exhibition Untold Stories I once Wished Lost at the Karsh-Masson Gallery (re-scheduled for 2021).

Europe and Zeus, linocut, 16 x 22 inches. Edition of 4, printed on Arnhem 1618 paper.

Printed on the artist's ingenious hand-made printing press (made of a re-purposed car jack, melamine and oak). Created for her upcoming solo exhibition Untold Stories I once Wished Lost at the Karsh-Masson Gallery (re-scheduled for 2021).

Click here for more work by this artist

An Untamed Bond, Part 2 of 5 of The Allegory of Atalanta, linocut, 2020.  Edition of 6, printed on Arnhem 1618, 16 x 22 inches.

When Atalanta was born, her father had hoped for a boy and so he left her on a mountainside to die of exposure as was the practice with unwanted girls or disabled children. Artemis, in the form of a shebear, found her and suckled her. She was raised as one of Artemis’ huntresses.

Printed on the artist's ingenious home-made printing press (made of a car jack, melamine and oak). Created for her upcoming solo exhibition Untold Stories I once Wished Lost at the Karsh-Masson Gallery (re-scheduled for 2021).

 The Calydonian Boar Hunt, 2020, 1 of 5 of The Allegory of Atalanta Series.  Edition of 3, 48 x 88 inches. 

This 12-panel woodcut is printed on tiled sheets of kozuke washi paper.  It is ingeniously engineered to line up seamlessly despite it's enormous size. Printed on the artist's ingenious printing press (made of a car jack, melamine and oak). Created for her upcoming solo exhibition Untold Stories I once Wished Lost at the Karsh-Masson Gallery (re-scheduled for 2021).

Click here for more work by this artist

Gust, cast bronze oak leaves. A pair makes a splendid wedding gift--each individually cast oak leaf is one of a kind, a moment captured for history.  Available individually; approx. 15 x 20 x 10 cm each.

Click here for more work by this artist

Wormwood, Artemisia absinthium, a cast bronze wall sculpture with a patinated finish from the Remedy series. Wormwood is often used to treat insomnia, lack of appetite, reduced libido, stomach aches, intestinal spasm, gall bladder disease, fever, worm infections, flatulence and anemia. 40 x 23 x 18cm, 2018. One of several herbs currently available.

Click here for more work by this artist

Le Dejeuner Sur L'a Neige, Lino Cut On Rag Paper. Series of 4.

39 x 29 cm

2019

Click here for more work by this artist

Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe 03, Lino Cut On Rag Paper. Series of 4.

39 x 29 cm

2019

Click here for more work by this artist

Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe 02, Lino Cut On Rag Paper. Series of 4.

39 x 29 cm

2019

Click here for more work by this artist

Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe 01, Lino Cut On Rag Paper. Series of 4.

39 x 29 cm

2019

Click here for more work by this artist

Dark Timber installation.  Two life-sized fawns on a hand-knotted rug.  Both in editions of 3: a second edition of the Reclining Fawn sculpture may be commissioned and the Standing Fawn sculpture could be re-visited.

Click here for more work by this artist

Poppy Bear, is a cast bronze belt buckle that comes with its own hand-crafted wooden storage box. Poppy Fox is also available. 

Click here for more work by this artist

 Barnboard Stag, is a cast bronze belt buckle. It comes with its own hand-crafted wooden storage box. A barnboard wolf is also available. 

Click here for more work by this artist

Leaden, a nest cast in lead on a free-floating lath shelf.  Series of 10 nests, each sold separately.

"A year in paces, a morning ritual of walking has led me to collect numerous bird nests from the thickets along Ottawa’s waterways. In this piece, I have cast each nest in lead salvaged from the torn out ironwork of Parliament Hill— an act of preservation at the perceived fragility of a tiny sanctuary and an exploration of the weighted concept of home and domesticity."

 Click here for more work by Anna Williams

Remedy, wall mounted cast bronze. 1/1

Life-size botanical renderings of 16 plants dedicated to treating mental illness and female disorders: St. John's Wort, lavender, valerian, skullcap, wormwood, ginkgo, hawthorn, maypop, California poppy, chamomile, saffron, golden root, blessed thistle, and sweet orange, etc. Installed on a red wall in a large grid of 4 x 4 plants, the series recalls an apothecary display; the natural world and the female body are ordered into the Linaean System of Classification and are increasingly subject to medicalization.

Currently only one individual botanical, Wormwood, is sold separately for $1650..

Click here for more work by this artist

Leda and the Swan, cast bronze and resin with a found antique prospector's axe from the Yukon and reclaimed 200 year old local wood.  Edition 1 of 3 has sold; inquire with the gallery to commission a new sculpture.

A bronze Leda strides gazing unwaveringly forward—it is a moment of strength and control. Slung from her right hand by its feet is a ghostly white cast resin swan, Zeus—no longer a threat, as draped across her shoulders from her left hand lies an axe at the ready. As the story is rewritten a heroine emerges as the author of her fate.

 Click here for more work by this artist

Diana's Stole, bronze with 200 year old reclaimed local wood. Edition 1 of 3 has sold; the artist could be commissioned to create a new sculpture.

Creating a moment of warmth and protection, a fox lies lazily across Diana’s shoulders. It is a tender union between woman and animal, where the huntress and her prey make a pact of mutual survival. Standing atop a wooden house they strive to make a home together—a moment of peace in a shifting landscape. Diana and the fox will by half-life size and cast in bronze. Their home will be made from the reclaimed joists.

 Click here for more work by this artist

Capsized, cast bronze, resin milkweed pods and a re-purposed local lath wood base, 14.5 x 17 x 9". Edition of 3.

Click here for more work by this artist

Squadron, individual flying sparrow sculptures in cast bronze with acrylic paint. Suitable for indoors or outdoors; 9" x 6" x 1.5", each $650.

Click here for more work by this artist

Portrait of my Father: Chainsaw.  A sculptural object in solid cast bronze.

Click here for more work from this artist.