Artwork copyright Stephen Yates. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Firestorm Forest, 1994

Stephen Yates
American (born 1952)

Location: Yacolt Elementary, Yacolt

About the Artwork

Firestorm Forest is a painting by artist Stephen Yates, featuring expressive brush marks to emphasize layers of movement. The composition suggests "a fire with the hot winds that are generated with forest trees in the midst of it," and with this piece Yates intends to reference how fire can be seen as both destructive and beneficial to habitat.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Battle Ground Public Schools.

About the Artist

Artist Stephen Yates creates paintings with bold, expressive strokes and abstract imagery. Inspired by landscapes, under water life, and the cosmos, his work investigates color relationships and the interaction of forms. Yates lives and works in Port Townsend, on the Olympic Peninsula in Northwestern Washington.