Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams moved to London to attend St Martin’s School of Art in 1952. Throughout his career, Williams drew inspiration from Maya and Warrau imagery, science fiction, classical music and the abstract expressionist painters. Williams was a founder member of the Caribbean Artists Movement in 1966. He exhibited extensively in Britain and Europe from the 1960s. His work was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1998.