Project Description
Bruce Yardley
Taxis Grand Canal
20″ x 12″ oil
Full Bloom Peonies
16″ x 12″ oil
Cafe by St Maciou, Rouen
16″ x 20″ oil
Behind The Salute
12″ x 10″ oil
Salute & Ca’Grande Morning
8″ x 12″ oil
Campo della Salute
24″ x 20″ oil
Champagne, The Great Hall, Clivedon
20″ x 16″ oil
October Sun, Jardin des Tuileries
12″ x 16″ oil
Rain Trafalgar Square
12″ x 20″ oil
Tulips and Glass
12″ x 16″ oil
Liverpool Cathedral
10″ x 8″ oil
Baroque Salon
20″ x 24″ oil
Morning Sun, Grand Canal, Venice
8″ x 16″ oil
From Pont de l’Archereche, Night
12″ x 20″ oil
La Volta from S Angelo, Venice
16″ x 24″ oil
Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, Rain
10″ x 7″ oil
Covent Garden Cafe and Museum, London
12″ x 10″ oil
Impression: St Paul’s at Night
10″ x 8″
Bruce Yardley, born 1962, has been a full-time professional painter for twenty five years, with over forty one-man shows to his name, mainly at UK galleries, but also at galleries in the US, Canada and New Zealand.
Bruce’s work is firmly within the English tradition of tonally sensitive Impressionism. His principal concern, like that of the original French Impressionists, is with light, and over the years he has evolved an expressive and painterly style to capture the wonderfully varied effects of light in all its forms, a style that avoids the deadening hand of descriptive detail. The influence of Monet, Sickert and Whistler is readily apparent, and Bruce discusses these men and other inspirations in his forthcoming book, Painting like the Impressionists, to be published by Crowood Press in July 2021. His paintings range in scale from small alla prima oil sketches executed on board to canvases of four foot and more.
Personal and Education
| 1996-present: | Full-time professional painter |
| 1984-90: | Worcester College, Oxford (D. Phil., 1990) |
| 1981-84: | Bristol University (BA, 1984) |
| 1973-80: | Reigate Grammar School |
One-Man Shows
| 2020: | Catto Gallery, London NW3 |
| 2019: | Priory Gallery Broadway, Broadway, Worcestershire |
| 2018: | Catto Gallery, London NW3 |
| 2017: | Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London SE1 Priory Gallery Broadway, Broadway, Worcestershire |
| 2016: | Catto Gallery, London NW3 |
| 2015: | Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London SE1 Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond Hill, Surrey |
| 2014: | Catto Gallery, London NW3 Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond Hill, Surrey |
| 2013: | Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London SE1 |
| 2012: | Catto Gallery, London NW3 Priory Gallery Broadway, Broadway, Worcestershire |
| 2011: | Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London SE1 |
| 2010: | Catto Gallery, London NW3 |
| 2009: | Alexander Gallery, Bristol Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London SE1 |
| 2008: | Catto Gallery, London NW3 |
| 2007: | Alexander Gallery, Bristol Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London SE1 |
| 2006: | Catto Gallery, London NW3 Priory Gallery Broadway, Broadway, Worcestershire |
| 2005: | Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London SE1 Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond Hill, Surrey |
| 2004: | Catto Gallery, London NW3 Petley Fine Art, London W1 |
| 2003: | Clifton Gallery, Bristol David Curzon Gallery, London SW19 Jonathan Grant Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond Hill, Surrey |
| 2002: | Bourne Gallery, Reigate, Surrey Catto Gallery, London NW3 |
| 2001: | David Curzon Gallery, London SW19 Jonathan Grant Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond Hill, Surrey |
| 2002: | Catto Gallery, London NW3 |
| 1999: | Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond Hill, Surrey |
| 1998: | Catto Gallery, London NW3 |
Two-Man Shows
| 2020: | BY/David Howell, Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge, Hampshire |
| 2010: | BY/Nick Poullis, Priory Gallery Broadway, Broadway, Worcestershire |
| 2007: | BY/John Yardley, Win Henstock Gallery, Oakville, Ontario, Canada |
| 2005: | BY/John Yardley, Jonathan Grant Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 2003: | BY/John Yardley, Win Henstock Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, USA |
| 1999: | BY/Stan Andrews, Clifton Gallery, Bristol |
| 1997: | BY/Biddy Frankel, Thompson’s Gallery, London W1 BY/John Yardley, Granby Gallery, Bakewell |
Societies
| 2000-3 | Associate, ROI |
Awards
| 2000 | Menena Joy Schwabe Portrait Prize, ROI |
Publications
Painting like the Impressionists (Crowood Press, forthcoming)
Published Profiles
| 2008 | The Artist |
| 2004 | Art in England |
| 2000 | Leisure Painter |
| 1999 | The Artist |