Tilda Williams-Kelly (she/her) b.1999  is a Scottish painter and visual artist based in Stirling whose work centres the study of figure, light, colour and environment within a context of oil and mixed-media painting. While utilising traditional oil techniques, Tilda blends life drawing and outdoor sketching with mark making, abstraction and imagination. Working with acrylic, spray paint, charcoal, pastel, ink, and gouache, she creates vibrant works that respond to observation and intimacy. Tilda is interested in alchemaic phenomena within the act of painting that devotes to manipulating properties to create works that both allude to and transcend nature. 

Tilda’s practice also involves writing, her undergraduate dissertation titled Sister Painter, Misogynoir, Intersectionality and Black British Women’s Painting was published in 2022, the first paper to be published with Boom Graduate Publications and is available in most online book stores. 

Tilda received the Graham Laing Award for Excellence in Painting and Sculpture in 2022, and was selected by the Alumni Committee of Hospitalfield for the Joan Cuthill Painting Bursary as part of the Graduate Residency Programme 2023 - 24