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Bee
Kit Williams: A Profile
The Bee on the Comb or Untitled
Christopher 'Kit'
Williams (born April 28, 1946 in Kent,
England) is an English artist, illustrator and
author best known for his book Masquerade, a
pictorial storybook which contains clues to the
location of a golden (18 carat) jewelled hare
created by Williams and then buried "somewhere in
Britain."
Williams wrote
another puzzle book with a bee theme; the puzzle was
to figure out the title of the book and represent it
without using the written word. This competition ran
for just a year and a day and the winner was
revealed on the live BBC TV chatshow Wogan.
In 1985, Kit Williams
designed the Wishing Fish Clock, a centrepiece
of the Regent Arcade shopping centre in Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, England. Over 45 feet tall, the
clock features a duck that lays a never-ending
stream of golden eggs and includes a family of mice
that are continually trying to evade a snake sitting
on top of the clock. Hanging from the base of the
clock is a large wooden fish that blows bubbles
every half hour. Catching one of these bubbles
entitles you to make a wish, hence the name of the
clock.
Other clocks designed by Williams can be found in
Telford Shopping Centre and in the Midsummer Place
section of Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre.
Williams was also involved in the design of the
Dragonfly Maze in
Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England,
which comprises a yew maze with a pavilion at the
centre. The object is not only to reach the
pavilion, but to gather clues as one navigates the
maze. Correctly interpreting these clues when one
reaches the pavilion allows access to the maze's
final secret.
In August 2009, Kit Williams was reunited with the
golden hare which he had not seen
for more than 30 years.[1] He is quoted as saying:
"I had not remembered it being as delicate as it is ...
Then when I picked it up the little bells jingled, and
it sparkled in a way that I had forgotten as well."
This reuniting was revealed in a BBC Four sixty minute
documentary on William's work, The Man Behind The Masquerade
on December 2 2009, beginning with Masquerade and
ending with an exhibition of the best 18 pieces of
his art from the last thirty years at London's
Portal Gallery, which had first
exhibited his work in the 1970s. The programme
showed Williams being reunited with the golden hare
for the first time when it was loaned by its
anonymous present owner in the Far East.[2]
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Bee on the Comb: Kit Williams now at Bees in Art
In 1985 Kit Williams broke open a seal upon the mahogany bee-box (see title page) to reveal the title of his book. Readers were given one year after publishing to solve the book’s hidden clues and win the golden queen bee.
