'Blackpool'

Oil on canvas, 30" x 40"

Fred Yates (Born 1922)

Yates grew up in a suburb of Manchester. An early career as an insurance clerk was cut short by the outbreak of war and he served in the Grenadier Guards until 1945 when he returned to Manchester as a painter and decorator. Untutuored but with tremendous self-discipline, Yates began to paint pictures of the rich industrial architecture of Manchester, the red brick terraces and the commotion and humour of street life. In 1950 he attended Bournemouth College of Art and in 1950 won a travelling scholarship to Rome and Florence before embarking on a career in art education. In 1969 Yates gave up teaching and moved to Cornwall to devote all his energy to painting, often returning for inspiration to scenes remembered from his childhood in Manchester. Yates has exhibited in many galleries around the country and in Geneva and Provence where he lived for a while. He has recently returned to live in Cornwall.

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