Born and raised in the English Channel Islands, Josh M. G. Yates moved to the east coast, USA. He holds a BFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. In his paintings, esoteric phenomena and landscape imagery are rendered in strokes and splashes of color. Also incorporated are drawn elements and other mark making. Repeating symbols are suspended, and intricate images often embedded onto the canvas surface. Yates paintings invite a viewer’s interpretation, placing an emphasis on the power of the unconscious and says that his paintings exist in part as a kind of deep visual experiential playground.

His paintings, in name and content, often reveal a dramatic conjuration; of both subtle and the more determinate and dramatically defined compositions. A weaving of free-form hand-painted application and the more intricately rendered scatterings of symbolic motifs across the canvas surface, renews with every engagement.