Tues 10 February – Saturday 21 March | Marc Yeats: Interfaces: Sea, Sky, and Land

Marc Yeats’s ‘Interfaces’ unveils expressionist coastal paintings forged through immersion in nature’s complexity and flux. This UK composer, painter, and writer avoids using photographs and plein air for the act of painting, instead absorbing light, geology, weather, and tides through on-site sketches, exploration, and place-based experience. Internalised memories erupt in the studio via bold, gestural oils—layered, scraped, impastoed—generating semi-abstract forms where mark-making evokes clouds, seas, rocks, and movement that shift meaningfulness and context when viewed.

Embodiment drives this performative alchemy: the body channels past encounters into both spontaneous and controlled mark-making, embracing serendipity and materiality. These works reanimate sensory residues—wind-scoured stone, dancing seas, spume and foam—echoing the trajectory and complex sonorities of his polytemporal music. ‘I want observers to hear my paintings’, Marc says.
‘Interfaces’ immerses viewers in ever-shifting perspectives of eroded, fluid coastalscapes, where memory and motif converge in vivid, ever-changing relationships.

UK composer, painter, and writer Marc Yeats’s Interfaces presents expressionist coastal paintings shaped by deep engagement with nature’s flux. Avoiding photos and plein air, Yeats absorbs light, geology, and tides through sketches and exploration. In the studio, memories erupt as bold, gestural oils—scraped, layered, impastoed—evoking clouds, seas, and rocks. His mark-making blends spontaneity and control, channeling sensory residues and echoing the sonorities of his polytemporal music. Embodiment drives this process, where painting becomes performative and immersive. Yeats invites viewers to “hear” his paintings, experiencing shifting perspectives of coastal landscapes where memory and motif converge in vivid, ever-changing relationships.

Opening times: Tuesday – Saturday | 10am – 3pm