Alex Williams Links: https://linktr.ee/alexwilliamsart
ALEX WILLIAMS ART
Visual Artist | Muralist | Self-Taught | In Practice Since 2011
Palm Beach County, Florida | Born in Jamaica | Raised across the Caribbean
ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Alex Williams is a purely intuitive, self-taught artist born in Jamaica and raised across Barbados, The Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, and Florida. His work is rooted in a lifelong relationship with the Sea and a deep passion for surfing, which he has practiced since the age of ten. Through this connection to ocean, movement, and the natural world, the language of his art emerged.
Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, Alex creates original paintings, signed prints, murals, and stickers. He can paint any subject, but his signature style is unmistakably his own: pulsating shapes and exotic island color layered with subtle symbols of spirituality, hidden peace signs, yin yangs, and visual cues that reward a second look. His art does not seek to imitate the obvious. It challenges the viewer to look deeper, below the surface, and to feel.
Each painting is a surprise. Alex works intuitively, finishing a canvas in as little as four hours, guided by his spirituality, philosophy, and a quiet conviction that everything is art. He is shaped by Buddhism, Taoism, the teachings of Lao Tzu, and the theoretical frontier of quantum physics. His guiding Zen saying:
In Zen we don’t find the answers, we lose the questions.
SERVICES OFFERED
Original Acrylic Canvas Paintings
Signed Limited Edition Prints
Custom Mural Work
Stickers and Wearable Art
Custom Commissions across all subjects and themes
AREAS OF INFLUENCE
Caribbean island life and marine environments | Ocean and surf culture | Buddhism and Taoism | Quantum physics and consciousness | Skateboarding and board sport culture | Music across all genres
COMMUNITY & COMMERCIAL PRESENCE
Alex built his reputation as an artist through direct relationships with local stores and businesses across South Florida and the Caribbean. His work has found homes in private collections regionally and internationally. He is known for creating art that brings genuine joy to the people who live with it. The most meaningful part of being an artist, he says, is the happiness it gives others.
PRESS & RECOGNITION
Canvas Rebel
2022
The Jamaica Observer
2011
Featured profile in the Jamaica Observer covering his practice, philosophy, and Marine Life paintings. Described as exuding a quiet confidence rooted in deep spirituality, Buddhism, and a profound connection to the ocean.
COLLABORATIONS
Women Who Surf (Documentary Film by Judith Rae) 2025
Drone photographer in Barbados for the short film (10 minutes) spanning Jamaica, Brazil, and Barbados. Screened as part of Kinetic Energy: A Celebration of Sport at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, April 2026.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Alex Williams
I am a purely intuitive, self-taught artist. I was born in Jamaica and grew up across Barbados, The Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, and Florida. The ocean has always been my teacher. I have been surfing since I was ten years old, and somewhere in that practice, of moving with something much larger than yourself, my art emerged.
Every painting is a surprise to me. I begin with a blank canvas and follow what comes. The final product is art, because everything is art. I work quickly, usually finishing a piece in four hours. What I am after is not technical precision. It is feeling. My paintings do not try to imitate the obvious. They ask the viewer to go deeper, below the surface, into color, shape, and something harder to name.
I grew up around the ocean, and there is a spiritual connection there for me. It is where I find myself. That same quality, the search for stillness within movement, runs through everything I paint. I work with pulsating shapes and the exotic palette of the islands. Sometimes there is a hidden peace sign or a yin-yang tucked into the composition. I am just sharing what I see.
Buddhism and Taoism shape my practice, and the teachings of Lao Tzu: being fully in the moment, living in the flow state, not holding onto any belief too tightly. I am also genuinely fascinated by quantum physics and the nature of consciousness. These are not separate from my art. They are the same inquiry.
I am passionate about making people happy. That is the most honest thing I can say about why I make art. I am a big-time romantic and I see beauty in everything. When someone lives with one of my paintings and it brings them joy, that is the whole point.
I am a surfer, a skateboarder, a wakeboarder. I do not like to depend on anything outside myself for happiness. That idea runs through my work too.
In Zen we don’t find the answers, we lose the questions.
