Being original is crucial to any artist's survival. In the field of realistic painting, though, there seems little left for artists to explore in an age when anyone with a camera has long been able to capture virtually any image of their choice.
However, this has done nothing to deter Brian Williams, a 60-year-old Shiga Prefecture-based artist who has made his entire living from his realistic paintings of landscapes all over the world.
A Peru-born U.S. citizen who has lived in Japan for 38 years, Williams says he has recently come up with one of the greatest innovations in realistic painting — what he terms "parabolic painting."