Portraits

“I take the ones that interest me. I have to like the story, it has to be something that is meaningful to me and to the person involved. I like to talk to people, find out what’s inside them. I incorporate their personality, their dreams into the painting.”

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Beau Satori

Beau Satori

Today's installment from the Rediscovered Art of James Yale takes me to Eureka Springs to interview  Beau Satori about the stories behind the original art he owns that include the oil painting of Erin Foster, and the two pen and ink drawings James created to advertise...

Unexpected Gifts

Unexpected Gifts

These two sketches were created by James in the early 2000s, both unexpected gifts, offered without ceremony. He was simply doing art, and for reasons I’ll never know, I became his subject. I don’t recall ever modeling for them, which makes their origin all the more...