Llangefni-born landscape and portrait artist Kyffin Williams is widely considered to be one of the most talented and prolific Welsh artists of his generation – not to mention best-loved. Not bad for someone who took up painting on the advice of his doctor.

He studied at London’s Slade School of Fine Art, later teaching at Highgate School, London. Although his huge body of work consists of both portrait and landscapes, Kyffin is probably best known for the distinctively Welsh studies of the countryside and coastline of his home. Kyffin was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy Conwy, a member of London’s Royal Academy and an honorary fellow of the University of Wales colleges at Swansea, Bangor and Aberystwyth and was knighted in 1999. Today his work graces the walls of many a British gallery, and there’s a permanent exhibition of his work at Oriel Ynys Mon on Anglesey.

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