ELECTED ARWS 2023
Through both an art education in Singapore, and further art education in the UK, ( 1st class degree in art & awarded scholarship in an MA) Yellon is influenced by the merging of eastern and western culture, and continues to explore this area through her art. Over the past decade, her works have been selected for exhibitions in the Royal Academy of Art, the National Open Exhibition, the Society of Women Artists annual open exhibitions, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal Watercolour Society. She has also been selected for the Sky Art Landscape Artist of The Year in 2018. Receiving The Joan Kinder Salver Award and The Frank Herring Easel Award for the most innovative work in 2019, her works are held in private collections internationally. This includes the US, China, Singapore, Australia, and the UK. As well as in public collections in The Royal Marsden Hospital and The Royal Watercolour Society.
Yellon believes that art should be a reflection of reality; a mirror of our generation. Her recent works shed light on modern living spaces, which emphasise human emptiness in overcrowded cities, and the confusion that accompanies the loss of identity as genuine human interactions become a rarity. The simplified, unidentifiable human figures in her paintings symbolise how we live our lives without any acknowledgement of the existence of those around us, reflecting the realism of modernised day-to-day lives. By capturing the most common scenes that we encounter in our everyday life, her work challenges us to re-think and reflect on the way that we perceive ourselves and the way we perceive our surroundings, something that we often neglect.
