Landscape, Fraser Valley : Acrylic : 36 x 48
$6,000.00
Rose Study : Acrylic : 36 x 24
$3,850.00
Sloops Racing : Acrylic : 18 x 36
$2,950.00
West From Lyons Bay "Howe Sound" : Acrylic : 40 x 66
$8,250.00
Windward Sloops : Acrylic : 30 x 48
SOLD
Floral with a Red Wall : Acrylic : 18 x 24
$2,500.00
As a student at Hillside Secondary School in West Vancouver, Craig Yeats developed an interest in watercolour painting and made many studies of the foreshore of West Vancouver. A gallery in West Vancouver's Park Royal Mall was kind enough to display some of these works.
Yeats went on to study art at the Ringling School of Art And Design in Sarasota, Florida, earning the Lauren Wilford Scholarship in 1973 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting in 1974.He then obtained a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro in 1977.
Craig painted realistically and impressionistically for many years, but came to a point where he felt that those styles were cramping the impact of his paintings. To simplify, he began painting over his old paintings with a palette knife instead of a brush, obliterating the detail and reducing the images to basic colour and design.
Texture, colour and design became more important, and the subject less so.
Yeats' recent paintings are mostly semi-abstractions of West Vancouver landscapes, still lifes, figures and nature.
