Isabel Adonis

Artistic background

I’m a mixed race artist living in North Wales. I have been painting since 2008. I have sold a lot of paintings locally and online at The Weavers Factory, Uppermill. I took part in their online exhibition in 2002 entitled Scraps Patches and Rags where I sold most of my paintings.
My art was inspired in the first instance by the art of Islam. I lived in the Sudan as a child. And also the sewing and make do ness of my mothers. I made quilts first, then cloth pictures, clothes dolls and then began painting.
My father is the award winning West Indian writer, Denis Williams whose paintings hang in the Tate.
I call myself a folk artist and am interested in American folk art. People like my art and feel inspired by it because it is not perfect.
Recently I have completed an artwork called ‘Going to Africa’ and this is held in the archives at the National Library of Wales.