Opening Event on Friday 4th August from 6.30pm in the Chate Room at King Street Gallery with an introduction by the art historian, Peter Lord.
John Cyrlas Williams (1902-1965) was once tipped as one of Wales’ most promising young painters. Williams painted his first pictures in 1918 and trained initially at the Newlyn School under Stanhope Forbes. Later he pursued his training in Paris. However, all Williams’ pictures were painted before he reached the age of 30. Subsequently, alcoholism and other personal problems curtailed the career of the painter whose work was described by Winifred Coombe Tennant – his patron in the 1920s – quite simply as “the real thing”. Eventually he abandoned painting, spending the rest of his working life as a clerk. More stories