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Welsh Artists....

Kyffin Williams. Welsh Artists. Helen Elliott. Augustus John. Augustus John (1878-1961) is known for his portraits……….

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Welsh Artists....

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  1. Kyffin Williams Welsh Artists.... Helen Elliott Augustus John

  2. Augustus John (1878-1961)is known for his portraits……….. Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post Impressionism the United Kingdom. Augustus was celebrated for his figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was compared with that of Gaugin and  Matisse. He developed a style of portraiture that was imaginative and often extravagant. ….and self-portraits

  3. Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author

  4. Sir John ‘Kyffin’ Williams (1918-2006)….used the landscape of Wales for his subjects…. Coastal sunsets Rural landscapes

  5. Sir John "Kyffin" Williams (9 May 1918 – 1 September 2006) was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Llanfairpwll on the Island of  Angelsey.  Kyffin Williams was educated on the island  before joining the 6th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 1937. After he failed a British Army Medical in 1941,his doctor advised him to take up art. After leaving the army he taught art in Highgate School, London from 1941-1973 Kyffin Williams died on 1 September 2006, aged 88, at a nursing home in  Anglesey

  6. The rugged Welsh landscape was his inspiration….

  7. Helen Elliott …an artist for today….(www.elliottart.net) An internationally recognised artist from Newcastle Emlyn, Helen Elliott has been painting since 1970. Her paintings  describe the colourful and sometimes mischievous life of villages, towns and peoples of West Wales

  8. Village life in West Wales……as she sees it!

  9. Helen Elliott visited school and helped class 6 to become better painters…

  10. Budding artists at work…..

  11. The children enjoyed working with acrylic paints on canvas and were proud of their finished work….

  12. Our paintings in the style of Helen Elliott……..

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