CHARLIE YATES

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Charlie Yates current duo exhibition with James Naish - Exploring light through two distinct approaches, the exhibition moves between atmosphere, memory and material.

Charlie Yates explores fleeting moments of light through atmospheric paintings informed by film photography, oil paint and natural earth pigments. Drawing on his upbringing in Scotland, his work reflects on the relationship between light, landscape and memory, distilling observed places into fragmented and illuminated forms.

Together, both artists explore light as something both experienced and transformed, bringing painting and sculpture into dialogue through their shared interest in material, atmosphere and illumination.

Growing up in Scotland, Yates became attuned to rapidly changing weather and brief shifts in brightness. Glisk, a Scottish word describing a fleeting moment of light, has become an important reference within his practice. Working with oil paint and natural earth pigments, Yates removes and softens layers through a variety of tools and techniques until the original image gives way to something less certain. Larger landscapes develop into illuminated fragments, allowing light to become both subject and structure. Grainy and atmospheric, the paintings hover between a photographed place and the memory of having experienced it.