to Patagonia , where Welsh immigrants had settled in the mid-nineteenth century . ‘ I went to Welsh Patagonia ’, he later recalled , ‘ purely to record the land , the people and the natural history , much as an eighteenth-century water colourist would have done . I never intended to produce works of art but if this did happen by chance , it was all to the good .’

– National Museum Wales – Dyffryn Camwy , Patagonia 1969 – Kyffin Williams ( 1918 – 2006 ) – Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales Williams spent five months there sketching the landscape and descendants of the Welsh settlers . The dusty , often barren terrain was in stark contrast to the rain-drenched hills and mountains of his beloved Wales . But Williams , with his characteristic palette-knife style , created vivid records of its distinctive geographic environment and the humble existence of its people . Today his Patagonian landscapes belong to the National Library of Wales .

Travel will continue to inspire and motivate artists as they seek to explore beyond the local and the known . Despite the proliferation of photographic representations of other lands , a work of art can capture the traveller ’ s experience in a uniquely resonant and imaginative way .

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