Life and a living for Catonsville artist
Edward Williams always knew he was going to become an artist.
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- Edward Williams, a Catonsville artist, mixes colors while painting a commissioned piece of flowers on canvas at his home on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
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- Edward Williams, a Catonsville artist, dabs some more paint on his brush while painting a commissioned piece of flowers on canvas at his home on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
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- Edward Williams, a Catonsville artist, works on a large commissioned painting of flowers on canvas at his home on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
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- Several of Edward Williams’ paint brushes are laid out on a table in his home studio in Catonsville as he works on a commissioned painting, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
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- Edward Williams, a Catonsville artist, looks at his iPad displaying the painting of flowers he is working at his home on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
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- Edward Williams, a Catonsville artist, works on a large commissioned painting of flowers on canvas at his home on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
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- Edward Williams, a Catonsville artist, works on a painting on canvas in his studio at his home on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. On his wall behind him are a number of his other works. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
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- Reds and purple paints float on the surface of a white paint can at Edward Williams’ Catonsville home studio, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
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- Edward Williams, a Catonsville artist, is silhouetted by the window in his studio as he creates a large painting of flowers on canvas at his home on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
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- A few of Edward Williams’ other paintings hang from the wall in the studio of his Catonsville home as he works on a commissioned piece, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
“As a friend of mine told me, I was born an artist the way some people are born with a beauty mark. It’s just a given,” said Williams, sitting on a sofa in his living room, surrounded by his colorful paintings that line the walls of his home in the Paradise neighborhood of Catonsville.
“As a little kid, I always drew,” he said. “When I was in middle school, I took private art lessons from an artist in my neighborhood on Saturday mornings, and that’s when I really started learning to draw from the figure.” Read the rest of Catonsville Times reporter Lauren Loricchio’s story here.
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