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 me after the cataloguers have finished with them. These vary from his works on paper, sketchbooks, oils, diaries, photographs and at the moment, slides of his oil paintings that were more than likely sold years ago.
I note down their unique numbers and load the information on to the workflow so the scanners can do their work! After they’ve been scanned the material is then returned to me to check the digital image against the original so that you, the readers or web surfers, can view the image as similar to the original as possible.
What has surprised me most about the collection are the number of pictures of foreign places. Personally, when I think of Kyffin Williams, I am drawn to think of the Snowdonia mountains and Snowdon in particular, but there are so many different places in the collection including Venice, Rome, Patagonia and Paris. My favourite so far has got to be one of his works on paper of Paris with a bridge over the River Seine and the Notre Dame in the background.
Lon Vaughan