Brian Williams was born in Lima, Peru. He lives in Kyoto in a one hundred and fifty year old Japanese farmhouse. His studio is a five minute walk from his house.

Williams says that it takes time to get to know a place well enough to be able to really paint it. He says that you have to build up the knowledge, the experiences and the emotions about it and develop a pictorial vocabulary to express them.

Williams is one of the leading American artists living in Japan.

He is the first American to have over forty shows at the Takashimaya Department Stores where some of the most important art exhibitions are held in Japan.

Museums: British Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Portland Art Institute, L.A. County Museum.