JAN YATES SCA, visual artist field & studio work
Shetland
JUNE /JULY 2017: I am back in Shetland for a third 'Simmer Dim'. Direct-encounter works in response to place will be posted.
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Featured below is work in response to a second residency in Shetland (Sumburgh Head Lighthouse, June, 2016).
After a month in mainland Shetland, I traveled on to Fair Isle - the work is unfolding. |
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but it cannae last
oil / beeswax 40x48in 2017 available |
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but it cannae last
oil / beeswax 16x20in 2016 sold |
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Der Little lea an under a lang-backit sea (4) oil / cold wax on canvas 12x16in, 2016 sold |
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Simmer Dim oil / cold wax (beeswax) on canvas, 24x60in, 2016
private collection |
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5th June
12PM #sumburghhead 6x6in 2016 |
Migration Path (Fair Isle) oil on panel, 5x7in, 2016. available.
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Out-from North Haven (Fair Isle) oil on panel, 6x6in, 2016, available.
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Below are images of process (direct encounters) as well as plein air paintings made during my time in mainland Shetland and Fair Isle.
19th June, 3pm, oil on panel, 6x6in, 2016
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1st June
4PM #sumburghhead 6x8in 2016 sold 3rd June 10PM #sumburghhead 8x10in 2016 4th June 1PM #sumburghhead 8x10in 2016 9th June 12PM #sumburghhead 8x10in 2016 10th June 12PM #sumburghhead 8x10in 2016 11th June 12PM #sumburghhead 8x10in 2016 |
Shetland Work - 2015-2016
I’m finally feeling connected between the parallel worlds of Niagara and Shetland, falling into a rhythm of making work in response to the different lands. The searching is constant, thank goodness. Work intersects but will not be as one and I like that. The ‘making’ process has now opened up an overlapping dialogue in the physicality of application - the tools I use for the Shetland seas are being applied to the escarpment trees. There are few trees in Shetland- Niagara has no seas…
I will be going back to Shetland for a June residency, this time in a lighthouse perched way up on a cliff—I’m excited!
I will be going back to Shetland for a June residency, this time in a lighthouse perched way up on a cliff—I’m excited!
Shetland 22, oil & cold wax on masonite, 12x24in, 700.
Shetland 21 (a day with Anne & Mike), oil/cold wax on canvas, 30x30in, 2015
oil /cold wax on canvas,9x12in, 200
oil /cold wax on canvas, 8x10in, private collection
Mirrie Dancers, oil /cold wax on canvas, 8x10in, 150
Shetland 19, oil /cold wax on canvas, 8x10in, sold
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Shetland 20, oil /cold wax on canvas, 8x10in, 200.
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This body of work is new and I will be delving into it throughout the year-probably much longer. The series is evolving out of a recent (April 2015) residency in the Shetland Islands, of which I thank the Ontario Arts Council and those of you supporting me by purchasing paintings via the 'Wild in Shetland' crowd-funder. Those paintings were made looking out to the sea, listening to the laughing gulls and lapping waves and breathing in the heady sea air-some were supervised by a seal.
Scalloway walk 4 encaustic on found panel
4x12in
2015
Shetland 24 (Annes sheep) encaustic on found panel 6x14in 2016
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The plein air paintings below were made for those who sponsored me through the 'Wild in Shetland' crowd-funder, of which I am deeply grateful. |
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'This residency is very different from the time in Ireland. Then, I was an objective outsider and in analtogether different state of mind. That residency was deeply profound and still affects my work,it is just a different experience than this one. In Shetland, I am IN the sea, IN the hills, IN the skies.There is no dividing line, no objectivity-just a divine surrender to a place in time.'
Jan Yates, April 2015, Shetand
Shetland 9
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Shetland 8
sold
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Shetland 7
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Shetland 6
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Shetland 5. sold-Anne
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Shetland 4. sold-Anne
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Shetland 3-sold-Corinne
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Shetland 2 sold-Darrell
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Shetland 1
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Shetland 10-sold-Katlyn
Eshaness, oil/cold wax on waxed canvas, 16x20in, sold
Fare Well, oil and cold wax, 8x10in, private collection
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