Paintings by Jane Yates

The nine paintings of sea gulls are called ‘Binary Birds’. They started life in Scotland while I was on a holiday in a beautiful small fishing village which perhaps not surprisingly was full of sea gulls. I started by rolling printing ink on a sheet of glass then putting a blank piece of paper on top of the ink drawing a sea gull. The paper was then pealed off and another clean piece put on the ink and rubbed by hand, this leaves a lighter print of the same image. All images can only be made in groups of two and both are slightly different. I then added some pen work and gold effect leaf.
I have been an artist a long time, I am 48 now, and in my latest work, some of which can be seen in the window of ‘The Mill’, Oxfordshire Mind on the Cowley Rd and upstairs in their gallery this month, includes things which are not apparent when the painting is first looked at, like a secret that is waiting to be discovered. This is why I used the binary code to make the sea gull paintings, spelling out the word sea gull twice in each painting around the edge, however as a dyslexic I found it mostly imposable to copy the code exactly, so I am not sure it will decipher correctly, making perhaps unintentionally even more a secret. None of the Binary birds paintings have special names apart from one, which is called, ‘Crime Scene Road Kill Binary Bird’, If you look I’m sure you will be able to tell which one!
The Three Spaniel paintings which are hanging in this show are off my daughter’s dog, Mandy. Whom you may know as Fat Spaniel from the cartoon which I write for The Leys News, which is a free community newspaper delivered monthly to over 5000 homes in Blackbird Leys and Greater Leys.
I have no painting’s for sale at the moment, but will have at my next solo show for the month of June this year in the ‘Said Business School’, near the station Oxford.
Thank you for taking the time to read this statement and I will answer any e mails that you send me. Jane Yates. www.wolvercoteartist.co.uk  and on Twitter as janeyatesartist. E Mail: ohsomebody@live

Photos taken by George