Aubrey Williams was one of the founding members of the Caribbean Artists Movement, formed in the 1960s in the United Kingdom, after settling there in the early 1950s. Brought up in Guyana, he attended the Working People’s Art Class (WPAC), the first official art institution in the country. As a trained agronomist, Williams worked in the field with the Warrau tribe during British colonization. The experience of living in the jungle with the Warrau deeply impacted his artistic vocabulary. Arriving in London in 1952 as part of the Windrush generation, Williams went to St Martin’s School of Art and was exposed to the German Expressionists at Marlborough Gallery and the Abstract Expressionists at the Tate and Whitechapel Galleries. While his early exhibitions were greeted with interest, he was soon marginalized by critics and art historians. It was only in 1989, when a series of his works were shown as part of the exhibition The Other Story at the Hayward Gallery that he and his fellow black artists emerged from the shadows of a discriminatory history. Williams is now regarded as one of the most important British artists of his generation. His paintings resonate with his own culture while also engaging with the Western gaze and its terminology of modernism.