The Golden Age of Cornish Art
Fred YATES

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Vase of flowers
42 x 37cm acrylic SOLD


Falmouth
116 x 88cm acrylic SOLD


Old Weymouth
28 x 37cm acrylic SOLD


Les Fleurs
24 x 28cm acrylic SOLD


Fowey headland
62 x 64cm acrylic SOLD


A merry Christmas
37 x 45cm acrylic SOLD


Snow Storm
26 x 33cm acrylic SOLD


Around Fowey
27 x 36cm acrylic on canvas SOLD

Fred Yates (born 1922)
Fred Yates grew up in suburban Manchester. After serving in the Grenadier Guards during the war, he returned to Manchester as a painter and decorator. Untutored, but with tremendous self-discipline, Fred began to paint pictures of the rich industrial architecture of Manchester, the red brick terraces and the commotion and humour of street life - a theme that the artist is still concerned with, even in his recent paintings. He subsequently enrolled on a teacher
training course at Bournemouth College of Art and in 1950 won a travelling scholarship to Rome and Florence.

He taught for twenty years battling continuously against artistic sophistication. For him, beauty resided in “simplicity and a child’s mind”. In 1969 Fred gave up teaching and moved to Cornwall to enable him to devote all his energy to painting. While he still painted scenes, remembered from his childhood in Manchester, he also worked on sunnier landscapes, new faces and activities that surrounded him. His paintings are included in many private and public collections including Brighton and Hove Art Gallery, Liverpool University, the University of Warwick, Torquay Art Gallery and Russell Coates Gallery Bournemouth.