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Kyffin Williams: Reflections in a Gondola

Wales's great artist Sir Kyffin Williams talks about four seminal turning points in the course of his life.

Wales's great artist Sir Kyffin Williams talks about four seminal turning points in the course of his life.

Sir Kyffin's Welsh upbringing, viewing a 15th-century Italian fresco by Piero Della Francesca, and a 1947 realization he might be able to earn his living as a painter - these are the first three. The fourth moment was an agonizing choice between Patagonia and Venice. He had spent two exciting months on a Winston Churchill Scholarship in Patagonia, and first visited Venice in 1955. The extraordinary Italian city's magnificence and lack of inhibition had cast a spell during each of his subsequent visits.

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Mon 21 Feb 2011 19:00

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