PAUL YATES, SELECTED POEMS, 1967 – 2023 Paul Yates has sustained a highly original creative output across poetry, painting and filmmaking for over five decades. His poetry has been published in various translations, his films have won international awards and his paintings feature in key private, public and Royal collections. To mark his seventieth birthday his Selected Poems, 1967 – […]
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A series of limited edition giclee prints on canvas based on original paintings first exhibited at the Fraser Gallery, St. Andrews, will be on view at Gleneagles Townhouse, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh from Tues. 5th Sept. – Sat. 30th September. Unique amongst contemporary British artists Paul Yates has sustained a highly original and compelling creative output across, poetry, painting and film-making for over four decades. […]
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On view and by appointment from 10th June 2022 Unique amongst contemporary British artists Paul Yates has sustained a highly original and compelling creative output across, poetry, painting and film-making for over four decades. His poetry has been translated into several languages, his films Have won various international awards and his paintings feature in important private, public and royal collections. Recently […]
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This Jubilee portrait of Queen Elizabeth II was inspired by the artist’s childhood memories of watching late night BBC television close downs in which the Queen appeared on horseback in grainy black and white, trooping the colour while the national anthem was played. After the television set was switched off, Yates would kneel before the screen and watch intensely as […]
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Paul Yates gave a private reading to a group of Americans at the museum home of celebrated poet Robert Graves, in Dey’a, Mallorca, on May 9th MMXXII. Yates closed his reading with his most recent haiku, a work inspired by news reports concerning the tiger resident in Odessa Zoo, poised majestic and resolute despite distant artillery fire, and the continuing courage of the Ukrainian people. “the tiger in […]
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British artist Paul Yates’s latest exhibition reveals the continuing evolution of the Robot theme in his painting. The genesis of the LEGION series originated in an incident the artist recalled from kindergarten in his poem, BOX HEAD. At kindergarten the artist and his classmates made robot heads from cardboard boxes as a Halloween project. One boy continued to wear his […]
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Galerie Casa d”Amor Design have issued the above commemorative gallery poster to mark the 2021 Biennale International Saint-Paul de Vence. Paul Yates Art are delighted to participate in this key international arts event. During the last decade Paul Yates has made repeated artistic pilgrimages to the village of Saint-Paul de Vence where he senses the ghosts of artists drawn there […]
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The Spring Exhibition from the studio of Paul Yates launches over the Easter weekend. The twelve works are a truly eclectic blend of subjects and techniques. Yates has no set style or subject matter, his imagination wanders at will. In this exhibition we have a work which has taken some eleven years to attain a state the artist is happy […]
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The latest online exhibition by artist Paul Yates opens today at www.paulyatesart.com. This exhibition features exquisitely sensitive portraits of a Scottish scarecrow and French ventriloquist doll and a daring new portrayal of the classic Madonna and Child theme. A masterly series of painted assemblages also feature in the exhibition confirming the continuing power of Yates’s unique imagination. Yates’s patron Lord […]
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To mark the tenth anniversary of production of the Paul Yates film “Twelve Months of Mourne” we have issued a special edition DVD. The programme commissioned by UTV was the winner of the prestigious New York film and television ‘Best Direction’ award. ‘These twelve short films form a unique record of the year 2010 from January to December in the […]
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