The Gathering, Farmers on Glyder Fach, by Kyffin Williams

Kyffin Williams stated that this was one of the greatest works he ever painted. It depicts one of his favourite scenes of farmers with their sheepdogs gathered on top of the snowy Glyder Fach mountain in north Wales under an atmospheric sky.

His use of a thick oil paint heavily applied onto the canvas with his palette knife was typical of Kyffin’s style and became iconographic. Through this unique application of paint one felt an intense energy flowing from his work. Kyffin Williams stated in his memoir ‘Across the Straits’ that his life aim was to record the land and the people of his childhood in Anglesey and north-west Wales. He was truly an expressionist painter and stated that when he allowed himself to be ‘…swept away into a fever of excuberance or even anger, the better the final result has been; while conscious thought has invariably brought disaster’.