Ski Williams Prints

Originally drawn with HB pencil on Arches watercolour paper and then inked with sable brushes, using Roberson's hand-made Victorian Style Inks & Liquid Gouache. This has been reproduced as a fine art giclée print of archival quality, on 315gsm natural textured Off White paper.

Ski Williams has created a selection of limited edition prints exculsively for Reel Art Press. Each print is a numbered, signed edition of 100.

Ski Williams (b.1964) grew up in North London. His artistically inclined parents encouraged Ski to draw from a young age. In 1978 when most of his peers were besotted with punk, Ski heard Buddy Holly for the first time and soon after became a Teddy Boy. Thus began a lifelong love affair with American roots music. He began to explore the thriving world of London’s Rock ‘n’ Roll clubs and second hand record shops. In his late teens he discovered the music and art of late 1960s California and became fascinated by the swirling psychedelic hand lettering of San Francisco poster artists such as Rick Griffin, Mouse and Kelly and Wes Wilson. Around this time he also started drawing and painting in Highgate woods, where he developed a deep and abiding spiritual connection with ancient Oak and Hornbeam forests.

Ski enrolled in a foundation course at The Central School of Art and Design before being accepted for an illustration degree at Camberwell College of Arts in 1985. Over the years he has been commissioned to design and illustrate many record sleeves and has made a series of large, limited edition silkscreen prints about music.      

Originally drawn on a sheet of A3 cartridge paper using HB pencil, it was then inked in black using Rotring pens. The drawing was then used as a template from which to create a five colour silkscreen print with each colour requiring a seperate hand cut stencil. This original silkscreen has been reproduced as a fine art giclée print of archival quality on 290gsm Smooth Matte Hahnemuhle bamboo paper.

Ski Williams has created a selection of limited edition prints exculsively for Reel Art Press. Each print is a numbered, signed edition of 100.

Ski Williams (b.1964) grew up in North London. His artistically inclined parents encouraged Ski to draw from a young age. In 1978 when most of his peers were besotted with punk, Ski heard Buddy Holly for the first time and soon after became a Teddy Boy. Thus began a lifelong love affair with American roots music. He began to explore the thriving world of London’s Rock ‘n’ Roll clubs and second hand record shops. In his late teens he discovered the music and art of late 1960s California and became fascinated by the swirling psychedelic hand lettering of San Francisco poster artists such as Rick Griffin, Mouse and Kelly and Wes Wilson. Around this time he also started drawing and painting in Highgate woods, where he developed a deep and abiding spiritual connection with ancient Oak and Hornbeam forests.

Ski enrolled in a foundation course at The Central School of Art and Design before being accepted for an illustration degree at Camberwell College of Arts in 1985. Over the years he has been commissioned to design and illustrate many record sleeves and has made a series of large, limited edition silkscreen prints about music.      

Originally drawn on a sheet of Arches hot press watercolour paper using HB pencil then inked with fine sable brushes using Cornelissen's French sepia ink & Roberson's Vermilion liquid gouache. This has been reproduced as a fine art giclée print of archival quality on 290gsm Smooth Matte Hahnemuhle bamboo paper.

Ski Williams has created a selection of limited edition prints exculsively for Reel Art Press. Each print is a numbered, signed edition of 100.

Ski Williams (b.1964) grew up in North London. His artistically inclined parents encouraged Ski to draw from a young age. In 1978 when most of his peers were besotted with punk, Ski heard Buddy Holly for the first time and soon after became a Teddy Boy. Thus began a lifelong love affair with American roots music. He began to explore the thriving world of London’s Rock ‘n’ Roll clubs and second hand record shops. In his late teens he discovered the music and art of late 1960s California and became fascinated by the swirling psychedelic hand lettering of San Francisco poster artists such as Rick Griffin, Mouse and Kelly and Wes Wilson. Around this time he also started drawing and painting in Highgate woods, where he developed a deep and abiding spiritual connection with ancient Oak and Hornbeam forests.

Ski enrolled in a foundation course at The Central School of Art and Design before being accepted for an illustration degree at Camberwell College of Arts in 1985. Over the years he has been commissioned to design and illustrate many record sleeves and has made a series of large, limited edition silkscreen prints about music.