Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Sharon Yates


The Heifer, oil on paper on panel, 8 x 10 inches

Sharon Yates is an amazing painter whose primary subject for many years has been small paintings of cows done completely from life. Out of curiosity, I made a Google image search on “cow paintings” to see what other contemporary painters were doing with the subject. There are many, perhaps too many, paintings of cows done in almost every artistic style and genre and level of skill imaginable. But what I didn’t see was paintings made, not from photos, but made while being out in a field actually looking at the cows. Rarer still are cow paintings made from life where the subject isn’t just the cow but also about the act of painting and the paint itself.
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