Many people still regard Sir Kyffin Williams RA as Wales's greatest artist as renowned for his rugged landscapes as he was for his intimate portraits. When he died in 2006 there was an outpouring of national grief that revealed Kyffin as a public & private figure as much loved for his genial personality & humanity as he was admired for his paintings. This was the Kyffin Williams that David Meredith & John Smith knew very well & Obsessed is as much a tribute to Kyffin the man as it is an assessment of his life work & achievement. & it is the privileged perspective born of friendship that gives this biography its authenticity & integrity. As well as tracing Kyffin's fascinating family history Obsessed details his life in the army & at the Slade College of Fine Art followed by his long career as a teacher at Highgate School London before his return to his beloved Anglesey via a great adventure in Patagonia. As they outline Kyffin's long career as an artist & his battle with epilepsy the authors also remember his railings against Modern Art & his campaign to see justice done to Welsh Art at the National Museum of Wales. Featuring almost a hundred illustrations forty of them reproductions of Kyffin's own masterpieces this book offers a lavish yet affectionate insight into the life of one who was by his own admission obsessed with his art.