Biography
Ranging from heavy impasto to the most delicate scumbles and washes his work, first and foremost, is a celebration of painting. McWilliams' work examines the timeless way in which the structural environment of a city intertwines with human presence, a subject that has resulted in seventeen awards for painting in the past eight years.
Drawing on Belfast's past, present and future, his paintings manage to combine both realist and abstract visions of a changing world where Palm houses come to occupy the same territory as modern office blocks and radio masts.
