Paintings by one of country’s most important artists have been animated and set to music at National Library of Wales
The paintings of artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne and David Hockney have been brought to life in all-singing, all-dancing immersive shows in recent years.
Now one of Wales’s most important artists, Sir Kyffin Williams, known for capturing the spectacular landscapes of his homeland with layers of paint thickly applied with a palette knife, has been given the same treatment.
Many of the hundreds of Williams’ pictures held in the store of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth have been animated and set to music.
Williams’ farmers and sheepdogs make their way through rugged landscapes; his waves seems to crash around the exhibition space; dark grey mountains spring up, as a sun drops into the sea.
Morfudd Bevan, the art curator at the library, said one of the key aims was to bring Williams, who died in 2006, and the library to new audiences, including to more younger people.
She said: “Kyffin is one of Wales’s most important artists and he was embraced by the public.
