Born in Walthamstow, London in 1982, Daniel Williams is a botanical illustrator and artist raised, and now working in Abergavenny, South Wales. Daniel was educated at Middlesex University, London and Blackpool & The Fylde College, studying a degree in Scientific and Natural History Illustration.

Following an expedition to Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, Borneo, Dan became the first, and only person to paint the extremely rare endemic orchid Paphiopedilum ooii from the series 'Orchids of Mount Kinabalu, Borneo.' The painting is now in the collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew accompanying his earlier drawing of Vanilla imperialis.

Dan has also shown at The Royal Horticultural Society, London.

'Orchid hybrid' Daniel Williams, 2006
watercolour on paper