Yana Trevail (1958) is a painter, printmaker and performer preoccupied with the interconnectedness of all things through the exploration of topographical themes. She won the Chairman’s Prize in 2000 and the Meynell Fenton Prize in 2002 at the Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London for which she was also an Invited Artist in 2003 and 2008. In 2004 she was the recipient of an Arts Council of England Award. ​She has had seven solo exhibitions and has had her work selected for numerous exhibitions including the BP Portrait Awards: National Portrait Gallery; The Hunting Art Prizes: Royal College of Art and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Her work is in many private collections in the UK and internationally. In 1975 she met the painter Robert Lenkiewicz with whom she studied and sat for. She was his studio assistant from 1997 until his death in 2002. She lives and works on Dartmoor. (http://www.yanatrevail.co.uk/biography1.html) Yana's work is anchored in reality. Not simply in an effort to capture a superficial image of her subjects, but in a search for truth - her 'remorseless display of her most intimate self'. While her truthfulness is shown most explicitly in her portraits and self-portraits, the same rigor is immediately obvious in all of her work. One could not imagine Yana working in watercolor; it would be too ephemeral a medium, and by it's very nature resistent to the rich, intense color that is such an integral part of her work. Yana works from direct observation and her larger paintings can take weeks of intensely concentrated effort. As a result the paintings in this exhibtion represent 2 years' work. Invariably, Yana's paintings invite us to observe a single subject, a headless torso, a chair, a spray of dead flowers. Her deliberate selection of such individual subjects demonstrates the integrity of of her vision and the skill with which she handles her chosen medium. In Yana's... (http://www.yanatrevail.co.uk/biography1.html} undefined

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