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MASTER OF HIS CRAFT
Environmental Studies
The natural world is the common denominator in Don Williams's art,
whether sculptural or functional.
ARTIST DON WILLIAMS is continually
inspired by the world around him
to find moments where form and function
intersect. A potter as well as a visual
artist, he divides his time between
creating sculptures and wall pieces
and crafting serviceable clay items like
bowls, pitchers, vessels and plates.
His mom, Elizabeth Williams, a
junior high art teacher and artist, designed
and painted tile walls in lobbies
of Manhattan apartment buildings in
the 1960s. " I've always been interested
in art, " says Williams, who lives and
works in Deerfield. " My mother worked
with clay, and she always had tiles
around that I could paint. Drawing was
encouraged, and I gravitated to it. "
Having had exposure to such a
creative environment since he was very
young, Williams often notices connections
between the natural world and
mankind's influence on it. He takes
note of the tension created by that
synergy in, say, aerial landscapes,
civilizations built into rock and the
destructive power of lightning, and he
is inspired by these things to make art.
He felt compelled to rescue architectural
relics from a nearby home, for
example, because he related to its
history.
Williams gathers disparate items
during his travels-to Deer Isle in
Maine, the once-toxic wetlands of the
New Jersey Meadowlands, the wildfireravaged
California woods, or simply
during walks in the woods with his
dog. His studio, Don Williams Clayworks,
is filled with charred wood
fragments, distressed, nearly unrecognizable
pieces of plastic, earthenware, industrial
objects, jagged scrap metal and other
manmade items weathered by nature and
time. Williams combs through this dusty
ephemera looking for a spark that will
fuel an idea for his next piece of art.
Given how thoroughly immersed Williams
is in his art, it is interesting to learn
that he was originally a pre-vet major
BY EMILY REILY | PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN W. HESSION
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at UNH. He switched to ceramics in his
junior year and graduated with a BFA in
ceramic sculpture in 1977. From 2010 to
2020, he was a full-time senior lecturer in
ceramics at his alma mater.
For New Hampshire Home, Williams
explains his creative process and why
he's drawn to piecing together seemingly
random pieces into thoughtful, original
art pieces.

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