Free entry – complimentary tea and cake – non members welcome

This is the third in what is now becoming an annual Highgate Society event – a January afternoon
travel talk and tea. Our first, in 2016, featured visits to North America by Catherine Budgett Meakin
and to the Andes by Richard Webber. Last year it was the turn of Michael Hammerson who dusted
off his slides and diary account from 1966 to treat us to a wonderful account of his experiences as a
young man visiting the battlefields of the American Civil War.
This year our focus shifts to Asia where we will hear travellers’ accounts of visits to three countries in
the Caucasus and Central Asia that receive very few foreign visitors.
The presenters will whet your appetite for a visit with images of magnificent mountain scenery as
well as heritage site of world-wide significance. This will be presented within a broader discussion of
sustainable tourism, the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union, geo-political uncertainty and
social acceptance and resistance to the spread of Western values.
Do you need a guide to visit these countries? Or should you join a group? How safe will you be? And
how easy is it to engage in meaningful discussion with the views of local people? Come and hear.

Programme
3.15 1: Kyrgistan: Guyonne James
3.40 2: Armenia: Richard Webber
4.05 Questions, answers and discussion in response to talks 1 and 2
4.20 Tea
4.35 3: Iran: Betty Pires + team (the precise members of which are to be confirmed)
5.00 Questions, answers and discussion on practicalities of a central Asia visit

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.

Every one is welcome to come and meet members and non-members of the Highgate Society.

‘Highgate as a Conservation area’ exhibition

Come and learn about the Highgate Society and the CA.

Richard Webber illustrates the Lifestyles of the super-rich in Edwardian Highgate – “Then and Now; Great Houses from past Highgate”.

The Mansions of Highgate Ridge

Highgate is the location of arguably the finest collection of 20th and 21st Century Modern Homes, many of which are hidden from public view. Professor David Porter will give an illustrated talk on these and the progressive thoughts behind many of the schemes.

Places are limited so booking is essential through eventbrite, although the talk is FREE

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.

poster Poets 29 august revised

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.

poster Poets 29 august revised

poster Poets 29 august revised

Come share your poems at a welcoming open mic session
And take up the monthly poetry challenge set by members

£2 entry includes, tea, coffee, cake (sometimes) and biscuits

Tessa and Ian Henghes and Karen and Mark Rogers will talk  about their travels in Uganda with slides and tea with cake!

John Allan will give a talk – Local Heroes – Modern Movement Architects in North London. He will present works by Wells Coates, Erno Goldfinger and Bertold Lubetkin, including conservation projects he has carried out on their key buildings such as Isokon Apartments, Willow Road and Highpoint. As a director of Avanti Architects, John is a foremost expert on the restoration of modern buildings, is founding chairman of DoCoMo-UK and chairman of the Isokon Gallery Trust

Please book:

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