On the 11th of February was the launch of the exhibition from 12 - 2pm with light rereshments available and free admission.
There must have been about 20 or more works in all, pretty much all of them cost over £1000.
The lighting in the room is either from the windows high up in the ceiling or/and stream of tube lighting that ran around the whole room. An invigilator was sat behind a desk and only a couple of other people entered to view works the whole time I was in there.
The curation was simple enough, it seemed. It was like, big, small, big, small etc and finally there was a grouping of smaller paintings, framed.
I viewed each piece individually and took about 30 seconds studying them. I concentrated on the brush marks, use of colour and the subject of the pieces themselves.
I can say, I was impressed from start to end.
The work was semi-abstract in that the forms were about recognisable, those that contained forms. A lot of the works contained rusty colours, as the coastline he paints contains objects of iron which have decayed over the decades.
"I work as I walk, not knowing what I might find: Sight is touching at a distance, Painting is a love affair with a surface: Art is how a nation defines itself." ~ Geoff Yeomans - http://geoffyeomanspaintings.co.uk/
"Hawse" - 1994
The oil was plastered on thick, but then even thicker for certain objects, which then stood out and drew the eye in.
"Eclipse No3" - Oil on canvas
I was taken on a journey from the first few images, which included his self-portrait and his original explorations as he started to paint the coastline, to rusting parts of boats/ships and other objects that he closes in with and abstracts.
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