Jan Yates, SCA      visual artist
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Archived work ( please contact for availability)


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Lichen
(Sumburgh Head)
beeswax, aluminum pigment on found panel 6x30in. 2016

details on right
full image on left

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Turn

encaustic / aluminum on panel

14 x18in, 2016
350















Shetland 24 
(Annes sheep)
 
photo by Anne Mcdonald

encaustic on found panel
6x14in, 2016

sold
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tirrick

encaustic on found panel
5x14in, 2015

110



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Annes sparrow

encaustc and photo on found panel
photo by Anne Mcdonald

6x15in, 2015

private collection



























Brave heart encaustic on panel 14x24in 2015
sold


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Scalloway walk 4 encaustic on found panel
4x12in
2015





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The shetland pony   8x10in 2015
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Shetland encaustic on found panel 5x30in 2015.
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Scalloway walk 5, encaustic on found panel, 4x12in, 2015


Protect (2015)
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Beautiful Vagabond, encaustic, photo,  deer tail  on panel, 6x10in, 2015, available, inquire here


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Beautiful Vagabonds
encaustic on panel
7x10in 2015
available
inquire here



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Beautiful Vagabond,  encaustic on found panel, 4x10in 2015, sold







Taking flight   please   be All Right

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July
a summer day

encaustic mixed media on panel
8 1/2 x11in. 2014
sold

taking flight is not a given    all though not always right    all is not lost


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June
a summer day

oil/ cold wax
on canvas
8x10in,2014



I watched you    Taking Flight    hoping for a full circle    and a safe landing


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  June
                                                                                                                                                                     a summer day
oil / cold wax on canvas
16x8in, 2014
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June
a summer day

encaustic on panel 12x30in,2014

available

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Garden



Many of our gardens are grown from shared seeds, planting memories of time and place. Presented  are small layered panels-approx. 4x13in.Each surface is layered  with molten beeswax, then embedded  with seeds and their packets. 'Burning in'  with natural beeswax  preserves them forever.

price range: 120-190.
inquire here
Milkweed


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 February

homecoming

encaustic, milkweed, goldenrod pod and copper on found panel
12in round,  2014







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Anonymous as cherubs Over the crib of God, White seeds are floating Out of my burst pod. What power had I Before I learned to yield? Shatter me, great wind: I shall possess the field.
    Richard Wilbur


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January
encaustic/ milkweed  on panel
10x12in
2014





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Sway

mixed media on found panel
7x40in, 2013
300.
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… Thus, we sit, myself   thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty  and also, oh!   how rich it is to love the world.
Percy, meanwhile, leans against me  and gazes up into   my face.
As though I were just as wonderful     as the perfect moon.
Mary Oliver

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dog songs
song dogs

encaustic on panel
8x11in, 2013





The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown. And yet the world, In its distress, Displays a certain Loveliness.
-   John Updike, A Child's Calendar

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It's all right to fall

encaustic mixed media on panel
12x48in.
2013
700.


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November

Fall

encaustic mixed media
9x12in, 2013
140.
purchase here.



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November

encaustic on panel
6x14in, 2013
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Fall

encaustic on panel
8x10in, 2013
170.

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Fall, encaustic on panel, 4x12in, 2013,140. purchase here.



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Sway, encaustic on panel, 2x4x14in, 2013,  170.



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June

encaustic on panel
8x11in, 2013
210.
sold






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June

encaustic on panel
6x14in, 2013
170.
sold



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May

encaustic on panel
6x26in, 2013
270.
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April


Flutter

encaustic mixed media on panel
6x30in, 2013
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April, waiting for May

encaustic on panel
16x20in, 2013
available



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In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is always the case. Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
Mark Strand
  Keeping Things Whole



Further a Field

encaustic on canvas 11x14in, 2013
available

protect

The artwork below represents winter where I live on the Niagara escarpment. There are coyotes up here, and although I rarely see them, I hear them at night and it is a privilege. While working on this I was thinking about urbanization and whether we will ever live harmoniously with the natural world.



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Beautiful Vagabond, encaustic on found panel 6x16in 2013, sold.


murmuration

a fascination with the migration of starlings.
current images can be viewed here.

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Murmuration, encaustic on box, 6x4x11in, 2012, available



winter


On winter’s margin, see the small birds now
With half-forged memories come flocking home
To gardens famous for their charity.
The green globe’s broken; vines like tangled veins
Hang at the entrance to the silent wood.

With half a loaf, I am the prince of crumbs;
By snow’s down, the birds amassed will sing
Like children for their sire to walk abroad!
But what I love, is the gray stubborn hawk
Who floats alone beyond the frozen vines;
And what I dream of are the patient deer
Who stand on legs like reeds and drink that wind; -

They are what saves the world: who choose to grow
Thin to a starting point beyond this squalor.
Mary Oliver
Winter's Margin





Winter
6x10in, 2013
sold
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Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself --
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are.
Mark Strand
Lines for Winter




Winter 2,  6x12in, 2013, 190.



Inverurie Horses



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Epona and Macha are Celtic horse Goddesses who watch over the land, protecting its abundance and insuring a good harvest. As protectors of nature, they grant sovereignty over the land and are the goddesses of the stable, protecting all who work with horses. They guide and protect.
Embedded deeper into the wax is the Inverurie Horses" symbol-a design created by George Bain, inspired by a Pictish image of a horse he found carved into a stone in Inverurie, Scotland. It too is thought to represent the three "Great Horse" goddesses of Celtic mythology: "Epona" (Gaulish), "Macha" (Irish), and "Rhiannon" Welsh.

Spirals represent the journey of soul from the sacred vortex uncoiling outward to fill the universe, then returning to the balanced center. Spirals are a natural pattern found in wind and water currents, trees, shells, and seeds and express the unfolding of the earth’s energies and the expansion of the universe.   Throughout the layering process I intermittently added powdered aluminum pigment and although the digital image does not show, light moves continuously through the work.
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voyager 2, encaustic on panel, 8x12in, 2012, sold



Voices of the Air

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little voices of the air, encaustic etc on box, 6x10in, sold
But then there comes that moment rare
When, for no cause that I can find,
Sound above all the sea and wind.
The sea and wind do then obey
And sighing, sighing double notes
Of double basses, content to play
A droning chord for the little throats—
The little throats that sing and rise
Up into the light with lovely ease
And a kind of magical, sweet surprise
To hear and know themselves for these—
For these little voices: the bee, the fly,
The leaf that taps, the pod that breaks,
The breeze on the grass-tops bending by,
The shrill quick sound that the insect makes.
Voices of the Air
By Katherine Mansfield

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Quiet Conversations

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Quiet conversations,encaustic on box, 6x10in, sold

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    • Encaustic >
      • encaustic gallery 2
      • earlier work >
        • Spring / Summer: Niagara Escarpment >
          • Winter: Niagara Escarpment >
            • Autumn: Niagara Escarpment >
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                • moon
  • Landworks / Projects
    • Covid Lock-down Projects
    • da waander-migration, litter, climate change'
    • Shetland >
      • video
    • Landmade >
      • video
    • Bright Ideas
    • The Milkweed Project
    • the Dog's Tree
    • rags for those loved: Intentions from ireland
    • Cultivating the Greenbelt
    • Ireland Residency
    • murmuration
    • constructions and discoveries
  • Teaching
    • Upcoming Workshops & Classes >
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        • weekly art instruction & mentoring >
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