Scott Yorko Santa Fean Magazine Aug/Sept 2010 "Although originally from Northern Ireland, McWilliams exploits the light and dimensional audacity of urban settings by observing and regurgitating them through the vortex of his own bold imagination. Highly detailed for such a heavy impasto style, the work manages to deliver a realistic figure through an abstract lens that allows a stagnant subject to breathe life into our retinas and into our lungs. Those feelings of life pull us into McWilliams’ almost Day-Glo urban milieus. Balancing structural chaos with sound colour harmonies, McWilliams brings us into a symbiotic partnership with his imagined big city surroundings, a healthy antidote to the real-world sensation of being loose pieces scurrying around a maze of concrete buildings."
