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About Bruce Yardley
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Bruce Yardley completed his first oil
paintings as a schoolboy in the 1970s. He has painted full-time since the early
1990s, and exhibits at a number of well-known galleries. His first one-man show,
at London’s Catto Gallery in 1998, was a sell-out. He currently works exclusively in oil, and favours a brisk, impressionistic approach. His subject matter is varied, but figures feature prominently, and in all his paintings his concern is to capture the sometimes brilliant, sometimes subdued effects of light. ‘His strengths lie in confident brushwork, subtle colouring, firmly differentiated tones and convincing compositions. But perhaps where he succeeds most of all is in the ability to offer a teasingly restrained quality that suggests or evokes rather than painstakingly describes’. (Oliver Lange, ‘Masterclass’, The Artist, April 1999.) Bruce is the son of the painter John Yardley, is married, and lives in Reigate, Surrey. |