Yearly Archives: 2009

With Christmas 2009 upon us, I would like to share with you, this letter which Kyffin sent home at Christmas 1940. He wrote this at a decisive and traumatic period of his life as he had just been diagnosed with … Continue reading →

Photographs from estates of deceased persons engender an initial feeling of melancholy. Hastily assembled in shoe boxes and biscuit tins is a kaleidoscope of images that reveal a life now extinguished. There are inevitably anonymous Victorian portraits, cherubic sepia babies … Continue reading →

I am going to write the blog from the digitisation side of the project. The digitisation started in April, and everything is going well. I consider myself lucky because I get to see the whole collection as everything comes to … Continue reading →

What an amazing archive! Like many people I was familiar with Kyffin’s work as an artist but knew little about the man himself. His character really shines through in this archive. Before I began working on the papers they’d been … Continue reading →

Since July 2008 I have been cataloguing the art works in the Sir Kyffin Williams bequest. I must confess that personally I am a great fan of his work and was lucky to have visited him in his studio, and … Continue reading →

This is the select group with responsibility for describing the materials collected from Pwllfanogl. It’s their privilege to present the collection to Wales and the world. Siân Bowyer Siân, originally from Mold, has worked at the Library for the past … Continue reading →

Following the artist Kyffin Williams’s death in 2006 the National Library of Wales acquired a large part of his estate, encompassing the artist’s own works of art, his extensive collection of art by others, and his archives, including his correspondence, … Continue reading →