This is the “new visitors” page of artist John Yeadon’s weblog This website comprises a comprehensive selection from the archive of artist JOHN YEADON. It also includes his BLOG. John’s creative practice is fully explored, with the site covering a period of some 50 years of artistic activity. During this time, the work he has produced has been both deeply personal and remarkably wide-ranging. The site introduces an extraordinary series of creative processes, demonstrating the evolution of his ideas through to the images themselves – […]

  John Yeadon talks about his latest exhibition in the The Morning Star on Saturday February 18th. Read the online article in full here > MStar-yeadon+godotwyp  

“And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win.” “But what good came of it at last?” Quoth little Peterkin. “Why, that I cannot tell,” said he, “But ’twas a famous victory.” From THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM by: Robert Southey (1774-1843)   With another British Prince controversially in the Falklands, I though it would be topical to post Will Barton’s paper on my 1982 painting commemorating the Malvinas/Falklands war.     The Raising of the Exocet: The use […]

I am 64 today. L. P. Hartley proverbially said in the opening sentence of the Go-Between that “the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” It seems the older you get that it is the present that is foreign.   Photo: Marta Kochanek      www.martakochanek.com