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Established under the patronage of Lord and Lady Glentoran, the Paul Yates Studio is located in the quiet seclusion of their country estate in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, and occupies an extensive hay barn, lofts and courtyard complex.

Unique in contemporary British art, Paul Yates has sustained a highly original and compelling creative output across poetry, painting and film for some four decades.

Reclusive by nature, he operates from an eighteenth century courtyard complex hidden deep in the County Antrim countryside.

His paintings reveal an extraordinary imagination and attract international attention from connoisseurs of the avant–garde.

From early in his career Paul Yates has signed his paintings with a ‘mark’ PYA Studio as he felt a formal signature intruded on compositions. Over the years this ‘mark’ has evolved into a rune like cypher which has come to symbolise the inherent enigma of Yates’s works and is now the artist’s personal monogram.

Intensely private, Paul Yates declines interviews, preferring that his work speaks for itself.