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Geoff Yeomans

Da Vinci suggests we look for unique compositions on stained walls. Paul Nash refers to, as yet, unseen landscapes.

My stained walls are the details of rusting ships and debris on the coast - still life paintings that can mutate to images I have never seen but somehow recognize.

Manipulating a simple motif with roller, rag and knife allows the paint to roam and run until resolution; the material leads, the painter follows.

Between the weeds of observation and the rocks of depiction are divine and devilish notions which lie in wait. The spirit of our time emerges like a wreck at low tide.

I have staged solo exhibitions of my work at many venues including Balliol College, Oxford, Camden Arts Centre, the Williamson in Birkenhead, the Compendium in Birmingham and the Atkinson Gallery in Southport.
During 2006 my work will be exhibited at Tenby Museum Art Gallery and the Royal Cambrian Academy in Conwy.

Website: www.geoffyeomanspaintings.co.uk
Email: geoff.yeomans@virgin.net