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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas at a festive Baby Broadway concert this December!

Baby Broadway brings the sound of West End musicals to your doorstep. The whole family can sing and dance along to seasonal showtunes from hit musicals and well-known songs from Christmas films, all performed by our West End singers.

Enjoy well-known numbers from The Polar Express, The Sound of Music, Elf, White Christmas, The Snowman, Frozen and many more.  Festive fancy dress is encouraged!

Open to all ages from newborns to school age to grandparents, tickets are £10 per adult and children go FREE (up to 3 per paying adult, children do not require a ticket unless stated by the venue when booking). Concert lasts approximately 45 minutes, doors open 15 minutes before start time.

Visit the Baby Broadway website for more information

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.

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.

Children’s book fair, with added Bear Hunt, on Saturday 23 March, 10-1.  Celebrating 30 Years of Michael Rosen’s & Helen Oxenbury’s We’re going on a Bear Hunt with our own Bear Hunts at 10.15, 10.45, 11.15, 11.45, 12.15.  For more information or to book now for a Bear Hunt tel 020 8340 3343 or email librarian@hlsi.net

ADMISSION FREE BUT BOOKING ESSENTIAL FOR BEAR HUNT

Ideal for 3-6 year olds

Also: children’s activities, refreshments, face-painting, second-hand books & Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop

Baby Broadway is back! Head down to Highgate United Reformed Church for a welcome return to in-person concerts this summer at a perfect post-nap, pre-dinner time.

The whole family can sing and dance along to songs from hit musicals and films plus bubbles, puppets and dance moves in an interactive family concert performed by West End singers.

TICKET INFORMATION

All tickets must be booked online in advance. We are currently unable to offer tickets on the door

Adults – £12.75

Children – free (up to 3 children per paying adult)

If you are unable to attend as you are unwell or have to islolate, tickets are refundable (minus the booking fee) or you can use them to come to a future performance. Unfortunately you can’t give them to a friend to use in your absence.

AGE RECOMMENDATION

Open to all ages but we recommend for ages 0 – 7. Good fun for parents/carers and grandparents too! Children must be accompanied by an adult.

COVID INFORMATION

Please see our website for full information

VENUE & TRANSPORT

There is baby changing at this venue and space to park buggies inside the building (we always appreciate it if you can bring a sling to save space!). Please note there are steps up to the entrance of the church, but we will be on hand to help with buggies! There is disabled access via a wheelchair lift, please let us know if you require use of this.

Unfortunately we are unable to offer refreshments at this venue but there are plenty of cafes nearby.

Highgate station is a 15 minute walk away. Archway station is a 20 minute walk or a short ride on the 143 /210 /271 bus.

On street parking is limited in the area, please check local restrictions.

FURTHER INFORMATION 

Doors open 15-20 minutes before start time and we can admit latecomers. Concert lasts approximately 45 minutes. Seating is unreserved.

We welcome adults and children with additional needs. Please contact us for more information.

Take a step back in time at Lauderdale House’s annual Heritage Weekend. On Sunday 25 February we’re hosting a special Heritage Family Fun Day for children and families to explore the history of the house and the area.

Drop in for all kinds of fun and free activities between 11am and 4pm – activities are free and you don’t need to book in advance!

 Discover the stories of the Victorian children who lived in the house on our interactive touchscreens.

 Explore the House with our family trail (there will be a chocolate prize for the first 50 children to complete it!).

 From 11.30am to 3.30pm, a craft session making Tudor ruffs and masks for a masquerade ball!

 No unaccompanied children – bring your parent and carer so they can join in too!