Tableaux

About

They look you directly in the eye, and they look dispassionately away, not pretty but not unattractive.  Dressed to impress.  As paintings, they comment on the history of the depiction of women.   Whether to attract the eye of a king, a prospective husband, a court, or an illicit lover, she is the ultimate ‘object’ of the gaze.

With magazines and media selling us so many different images of ourselves,  we as women, are now caught up in a self reflective, self-conscious gaze of our own.  By painting and drawing from these given images,  Julia is trying to unravel and explore what lies behind such ideas of ‘beauty’, ‘femininity’ and ‘attraction’.

Caroline Yates MA(RCA) 

Born 1960, Caroline Yates is a graduate of Central St Martins and The Royal College of Art. She also studied fine art printmaking at Camberwell before beginning to paint full time in 2000. During this period she has exhibited internationally.

After moving to Deal on the Kent coast seven years ago, and in light of current issues, she has explored natural and psychological borders; the joy of entering the sea and reassurance emerging from it; the perception of an element, simultaneously benign and therapeutic, and capricious and dangerous.

Caroline is known for her crowd or group paintings.  She is now looking at “crowds” in their environment; in her painterly landscapes she has embraced the concept of movement without barriers, though mindful that we are all guests of the landscape. The notion of travelling and being escorted or guided safely by entities outside our perceived world also feature.