KYFFIN WILLIAMS was born in 1918, Llangefni, on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. After studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, London between 1941 & 1944. He became the Senior Art Master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973. In 1968 he gained a Winston Churchill Fellowship to record the Welsh in Patagonia.

President of the Royal Cambrian Academy from 1969 to 1976, and again from 1992, he was elected Royal Academician in 1974 and made an Honorary Fellow of University College, Swansea (1989), University College, Bangor (1991) and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1992). In 1991 he received the Medal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. He is accepted as one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century art in Wales ... best known for his powerful paintings of the North Wales landscape.