Monday, 15 January 2024

Artwork, Design & Recycling

The artwork and images below belong solely to the artist, Willo Williams - and are protected by Copyright Law.

Miracle Boy (oil)   
           
William (patinated plaster)

           The Great Race (plaster)             

The making of bifold screen doors, using old cardboard and hardboard, old canvas stretchers, old CDs (those which used to come in magazines advertising Internet providers), unused kids glitter glue & gems. The characters were first painted in oils.

Completed Doors

 

  

 


Bi-fold doors in situ

Sketches













Dick's House

The Casalis de Pury House (oils)

Brown Eyed Girl (mixed media)



So Tenderly He Loved Me (clay)

One Hand, One Heart... (plaster)



Call Me Jack (terracotta)



Hubert (watercolour)

Mary Jane (watercolour)

Emma Kate (watercolour)


Terpsichore (plaster and florists wire)

Incident at Samlesbury (oil)


Samlesbury, Where I Once Lived (acrylic)

The Great Renovation (watercolour sketch)

Pas du Deux (leftover cement)

Lunch At The Natural History Museum - Darwin Ponders Evolution (digital image from original oil)
 
Hot Swirl (digital image)

Norman Carr (watercolour)

Marjorie (oil)

Rodney (oil)

Billie (oil)

                                              
Galloping Horses (paper-cut)

Nothing Up My Sleeve (paper-cut)

Waltzer (digital image from original acrylic)

                                          

Another Waltz (paper-cut & discarded sweetie foil)

What Fun! (paper-cut & discarded sweetie foil)

Fairground Fish (torn paper & discarded sweetie foil))
                                                      
Fiona & Iain (watercolour miniatures)

Joan (watercolour)

Marilyn (watercolour)

Canna Lily (watercolour)

Aunt Ruth (watercolour)

Samantha (watercolour)

Anguish (crumpled tissue paper & ink)

Carving (plaster)

Eleanor (photograph)


Paul (pen sketch)

Tockholes in Winter (mixed media)

A Thousand Words (oil)

Bat ladies (papercut)


From Hospital Horrors to NHS Magic (cut scrap paper & hospital notes)

The Three Sherees (patinated plaster)

Warrior(batik)

Cheetah (batik)

Water Carrier (batik)

Zebra (batik)

Crested Cranes in Flight (batik)

Amaryllis (watercolour)

Broken But Beautiful (painted eggshells)


Fire Dance (acrylic and recycled electrical wire)

Hong Kong Legs (paper-cut)

Birth of Venus with Apologies to Botticelli (recycled steamer, doll and paint)


                                 
                                                                    
                                                          
                                                                      Digital Artwork

Elephant at Water Hole (oil)

Children of the Kafue River (oil)

Elephant (oil)

Fantasy (batik)

Flame Lily (watercolour)

Ugh! (paper-cut)

Mr Chauhan (oil)

Beth (watercolour)

Tess (watercolour)

Guineafowl (pencil)

Zebra & Wildebeest  (batik)

Jack & Connie's house (oil)

Malala, Icon of Our Time (face original oil painting and the rest is mixed media)

Malala (print form original oil and then mixed media applied to rest of image)

Paul (pastel sketch)

Silver Service (oil)

A Father Says Goodbye To His Son (oil)

During Lockdown my neighbours were clearing out their wardrobes and brought unwanted clothes to my door. Very few fitted me so I up-cycled them.









Starman (face painted in oil with up-cycled
 can, pie dish, lace, CD, jewellery findings, kids gems)

Starman 2 (digital image of original portrait, with up-cycled CD, jewellery findings, aluminium can, lace and wrapping paper)


Purple Rain (original, face painted in oil with up-cycled
 pie dish, lace trim, old CD, gems, wrapping & tissue paper  

Madonna & Child
(resin, paint, jewellery findings, broken jewellery)

Diva (mixed media)

Porcelain (mixed media)

Jimi (oil)

Mike (watercolour)

John's Son (watercolour)

The free Kick (oil)

Ode a Alegria (oil)

Strelitzia Reginae (watercolour)


The splash-back to my hob (mosaic using some new tiles, in addition to broken pottery dug up from my garden when I had my extension built)

                                                          Hillsborough (coloured etching)

                       
Sarah (original terracotta & cast in plaster. A further cast in resin that didn't turn out well, so I stuck on my back wall and painted around it - see below:
 

                  
                                              
                                                                        Garden Mosaic                                                   

                     
                      The painted "window" in the garden using old louvre doors and odd bits of wood






Painted portraits of my four granddaughters (painted background with up-cycled CDs etc)
 They all fit together to form a quadriptych (or tetraptych)


Coat made from charity shop curtains
     
                             


 


                                             
During Lockdown my neighbours gave me some jogging pants, jumpers and T-shirts - all too big for me, so I up-cycled them into this outfit


                                         

                                            


This outfit started off as a 20+-year-old torn duvet cover my friend was throwing out


I took six pairs of specs to the recycling bank, but you can't donate the cases, so I took the pouch-style cases home and with some kids unused felt and some unused shoe laces I made this hat.

                                  
                            

                    
The soles came apart from these boots and they were also cracked across the bottom, so I made them into a nice warm hat


I saved this fabulous wool tartan fabric from going to the tip. As much as I adore men in kilts I am sad to say that women (especially older women) don't look as fabulous in them as their menfolk, so I wanted to make something more flattering, but on the same principle of one piece of cloth, pleated & fastened with a strap (I used a strap from an old handbag for this). To go with the kilt I made an oversized tam-o-shanter.


                                           

 


                                  
I actually bought this tartan fabric new - not recycled!

 
             
                           

                                     
                                                                             


   Plain boots that I bought from a charity shop for £3. I added faux stirrups made from
old handbag straps. I made them so I could remove them and use on other boots.

      

 
    

    
Another outfit made from a duvet cover and one pillow case found in a charity shop


Waterbuck (batik)

Duende (digital artwork)


Shifting Sands (resin and sand relief on printed background)
                
Miss Colostomy & the Windbags (oil)

Birds Of A Feather (oil) 

Up, Up & Away (unused cement & found objects)


Self Portrait (oil)

Tony, Craig & Dogs (oil)


  

                                        
Neck ruff,  mittens and corsage from unused knickers

                                   
                                                        Coat with minimal amount of waste









                                        Arctic Tern from old CDs, nail scissors, and potato masher

Coat from old curtains, dyed



Coat made entirely from small scraps and sleeves from an unused blouse



Exhibition in Croydon running until October 2024


With the artist Hetain Patel


With Hetain's parents and another artist, Jo. Four of my 13 pieces immediately behind the group