 Bruce Yardley, son of renowned watercolour artist John Yardley, was born in 1962. Although he made his first oil paintings around 1970, while still at school, Bruce trained in history at Bristol and Oxford and then became involved in the wine trade as a tradesman and writer.
When Bruce decided to paint full time in 1996, his popularity swiftly rocketed both in the UK and around the world. His first one man show was a complete success and sell out.
Bruce paints exclusively in oils, and has done professionally since the mid-1990s. He may be accurately termed an impressionist, both in his paint handling and in his choice of subject, the latter of which is wide-ranging but rooted in the impressionist tradition: informal, animated scenes of society at work and play, interiors, landscape (both built and natural), still life, and boudoir studies of the model. However his overriding subject is the varied effects of light, and more especially sunlight, which is why he regularly travels to France and Italy.
Yardley is an associate member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and exhibits regularly across the UK and around the world.
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