A guided tour through Stoke Newington with the excellent Rachel Kolsky.  All profits to The Harington Scheme.

The 10^th Annual Kyffin Williams Lecture: Conservation Challenges

Jenny Williamson, Easel Painting Conservator

Jenny Williamson has come to know Kyffin Williams’s pictures well through her work at galleries across Wales.  In this talk to mark Kyffin’s centenary year she will answer questions such as ‘what does an art conservator do?’ ‘what does she aim to achieve?’, ‘what techniques does she use?’ and ‘what pitfalls does she need to avoid?’

Talks take place on Mondays at 7pm in the AV Room in the Mills Centre. Refreshments, including wine, are available from 6.30 pm and afterwards.

To celebrate the Highgate Heritage Weekend we have a wide range of free history themed children’s activities including:

• Dress up with your parents as one of the colourful characters in Lauderdale House’s history
• Pretend to be royal – take a photo behind our cut out of King Charles II, Nell Gwynn and their baby
• Explore our ‘artefacts’ box – a selection of curious household objects from the past. Guess what they are; what they were used for and how old they might be!
• Go around the House with our family trail

We also have the Arts Award Discover Trail -Free but £6 if you wish to apply for a certificate (latest start 3.30pm).

If you’re arty, love Lauderdale House and aged 6 to 11 you could receive an Arts Award!

This is an opportunity to go around as a family with our Arts Award Trail looking at the House and gardens in a new light, drawing pictures and making observations.  It will take about an hour to complete.  Children can do it just for fun or if you’d like recognition of all your hard work you can hand it in with the £6 fee and we will send it off and Arts Award so the child receives a certificate to say s/he has completed the first stage in a series of awards recognising their interest in the arts.

Curious about Highgate, its origins, stories, green spaces and buildings?  Come in and talk to people who have an interest in and passion for local history.  There will be representatives and stalls from the Roman Kilns in Highgate Woods, Camden Tour Guides, HLSI, Lady Gould’s Charity, Highgate School Museum, Friends of Kenwood, Highgate Horticultural Society, Friends of Hornsey Church Tower, Friends of Highgate Library Shepherds Hill, Highgate Society and lots of information about Lauderdale House.

Lauderdale House experts Nick Peacey and Peter Barber OBE join forces with our Heritage Education Officer Maddy Gilliam to share new discoveries about our fascinating former residents.

Friends of the Highgate Roman Kiln – Michael Hammerson and Nick Peacey – will tell you about its remarkable discovery in 1969 in Highgate Woods, how it was lifted out of the ground and divided for safekeeping at Bruce Castle Museum and the hut in Highgate Woods; and their mission to reunite it in its original location. Find out also how local people have tried to recreate the way it worked.

Stay on after for refreshments before the next talk.

Former General Manager of Ham House where Lord Lauderdale made his home when he married its owner Elizabeth Tollemache 2^nd Countess of Dysart after the death of his wife and he left Lauderdale House. She will talk about Lauderdale, Elizabeth and Ham House – and Lauderdale’s music.

To celebrate the Highgate Heritage Weekend we have a wide range of free history themed children’s activities including:

• Dress up with your parents as one of the colourful characters in Lauderdale House’s history
• Pretend to be royal – take a photo behind our cut out of King Charles II, Nell Gwynn and their baby
• Explore our ‘artefacts’ box – a selection of curious household objects from the past. Guess what they are; what they were used for and how old they might be!
• Go around the House with our family trail

We also have the Arts Award Discover Trail -Free but £6 if you wish to apply for a certificate (latest start 3.30pm).

If you’re arty, love Lauderdale House and aged 6 to 11 you could receive an Arts Award!

This is an opportunity to go around as a family with our Arts Award Trail looking at the House and gardens in a new light, drawing pictures and making observations.  It will take about an hour to complete.  Children can do it just for fun or if you’d like recognition of all your hard work you can hand it in with the £6 fee and we will send it off and Arts Award so the child receives a certificate to say s/he has completed the first stage in a series of awards recognising their interest in the arts.

Soundworlds of Lauderdale House from Tudor times to today, a programme specially created for the Lauderdale House Local History Weekend (24 and 25 February), featuring words and music by Henry VIII, Charles I, Purcell, Beaumarchais, Haydn, Verdi, Debussy and Zeigenmeyer.

Insieme – Italian for ‘together’ – share their love of music and words with you through skilful, imaginative and joyful performances.

‘we listen with rapture and watch with glee; a sensational two hours bursting with charm’ Fringe Opera

www.insieme.co.uk

Insieme, chamber opera ensemble are a new creative residency for 2018 at Lauderdale House featuring 10 talented singers and musicians who combine strings, woodwind, piano, voice and the spoken word:

Johanna Byrne – Artistic Director

Clare Clements – Musical Director

Eleanor Hemmens – Soprano

Brian Parsons – Tenor

Joe Corbett – Baritone

Caoimhe de Paor – Recorders

Mona Kodama – Violin

Guillem Calvo – Violin

Juan Drown- Viola

Frederique Legrand – Cello

Clare Clements – Piano

Johanna Byrne – Spoken Word

There’s a Pheasant on the Roof: Kyffin at Highgate

David Smith, Highgate School

Sir Kyffin Williams RA, one of Wales’s most cherished artists, taught at Highgate School from 1944-73 before retiring to paint full-time on Anglesey, where he was born.  This talk will describe some aspects of his ‘London years’ in preparation for a pair of parallel exhibitions to mark Kyffin’s centenary in the Highgate School Museum and at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution.

Talks take place on Mondays at 7pm in the AV Room in the Mills Centre. Refreshments, including wine, are available from 6.30 pm and afterwards.

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A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018), discusses the work of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA.

8pm (doors open 7.30pm)

Entry £5 on the door (cash or cheque only).

Brochures and books for sale.

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  He spent much of his adult life in Highgate.  This talk is part of the Kyffin 100 celebrations in conjunction with Highgate School Museum.  Kyffin was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973, and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall hosting this talk.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.

A joint exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA 1918-2006  at  Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) and Highgate School Museum  14 September – 7 October  2018

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  Highgate Gallery@HLSI and Highgate School Museum are co-hosting Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife 14 September – 7 October 2018, the largest ever retrospective of Kyffin’s work outside Wales.  We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary of his birth here in Highgate where Kyffin spent so much of his adult life.

Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife explores the variety of his technique.  On display at Highgate Gallery will be rarely seen drawings, watercolours and linocuts on loan from the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, which form part of their acclaimed exhibition Kyffin 100: Behind the Frame (#kyffin100).  There are “plein air” sketches, watercolours, oils of Hampstead Heath, St Joseph’s and Athlone House, portraits of local people as well as Welsh scenes, sketches from his European travels and studies from his expedition to paint the Welsh community in Patagonia.  Highgate School  Museum will be showing works kindly loaned by private individuals and items borrowed from the National Library of Wales and Oriel Ynys Môn alongside its own collection: portraits, including a charming picture of his Bisham Gardens landlady, Miss Josling, and scenes from Wales and abroad, many dating from Kyffin’s London years.

Kyffin was art master at Highgate School for nearly thirty years and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall displaying this exhibition.  Local artist and fellow Slade School of Art pupil, Rosa Branson MBE, remembers his frequent and encouraging visits to her studio and their shared passion for work: hours and hours each day committed to perfecting their techniques.  Ex-Highgate School pupil Stephen Benson writes,“ I can picture him coming into the art school with that characteristic loping stride more suited to the Welsh hills than north London.  He wore a long khaki checked sports jacket with huge drooping pockets, more accustomed I suspect to holding dead birds and other game…  We didn’t appreciate how lucky we were to sit at the feet of such a distinguished artist….  At the end of term we were allowed to put aside our clumsy still lives and listen to him recite with an exaggerated Welsh accent the famous lines from Under Milk Wood.”

Kyffin studied at the Slade School of Art (temporarily housed in the Ashmolean/Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the war) between 1941 and 1944. He was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973.  In 1968 he gained a Churchill Fellowship to study and paint the Welsh community in Patagonia, South America.

His first solo exhibition in 1948 was at the prestigious London based Colnaghi Gallery. Further exhibitions followed in galleries in England and Wales.  From 1969 to 1976 and again from 1992 he was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy.  In 1974 he became a Royal Academician. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of University College Swansea in 1989, University College Bangor in 1991 and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth in 1992.  A dedicated Kyffin Williams Gallery was opened at Oriel Ynys Môn in his native Llangefni in 2008.  He received an OBE in1982 for his contribution to the arts and was knighted in 1999.  He published two autobiographies Across the Straits (1973) and A Wider Sky (1991).  A lifetime of paintings was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, on his death in 2006.

Event:  Friday 14^th Sept 6-8.30pm: Reception to celebrate the opening of Kyffin 100: Paper to Palette Knife at Highgate Gallery, HLSI, 11, South Grove N6 6BS

Event:  Friday 21^st Sept 8pm: Lecture (doors open 7.30pm).  Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of  Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018)  discusses  the artist’s work. To book a place contact admin@hlsi.net or HLSI office 02083403340 or £5 entry on the door. Refreshments served.