Paul Williams moved to Cornwall in 1996, after some years as a ship's photographer on a world cruise liner. The experience influenced him to study for a degree in photography at Falmouth College of Art. He now lives in Falmouth with his partner and their son.

Though his previous work has mainly been in portraiture, his personal love is for landscape photography and his work now combines Cornish landscape used 'out of context' to create imaginary or alternative reality (comment from website).  He creates photomontages with some of the miscellaneous and myriad images that he collected in various ports of call around the world he travelled.