Yanai is empathetic to his surrounds. When he paints he becomes his objects, and he offers us the opportunity to do the same.
His landscapes, still life, and portraits, sometimes contain an anomaly, an impossibility, which remind us that we are touching something which is part real, part illusion. His style is primitive, yet endowed with a raw clarity, and the power of the artist to see beyond form, to the subtle energies of objects.
There is often a meditative stillness about his work, and a delicacy which is enhanced by his limited choice of soft, pastel colours.
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