Peter Yates: Bridges between Imagination and Reality

This exhibition, from Stirling - born artist Peter Yates, is part retrospective and part new work. Some of the works have been inspired by wind farms. Although wind farms are Scotland's fastest growing renewable energy technology and are prominent on the landscape in many parts of Scotland, few artists have found them to be a source of inspiration. Many people consider them to be a blot on the landscape and a disadvantage to tourism. Perhaps this has something to do with the newness of the technology. The Dutch Masters, from Brueghel the Elder to Frans Hals, Rembrandt and Van Gogh had no issues with the windmills which graced the landscape of the Netherlands. Although only 1000 windmills survive from the estimated 10,000 there in the 1850s, tourists, inspired by generations of Dutch landscape painters, travel to the Netherlands in the expectation of enjoying the sight of windmills there. Through his art, Peter Yates is inviting the viewer to look at the landscape and consider it again.  For the most part, Yates works on calm and peaceful images involving the light of the seasons and seeks to engage with beauty. He works on the principle that art reveals beauty and peace to the viewer.

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Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//sc000192?id=EVENT514390