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b.1973 ( Barton-on-Sea). MFA ( Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London). Rob Evans is a painter based in Glasgow. His work entertains a dialogue between science and art. Images from nature such as ice formations, microbiology, geology and topography inform his work. Evans employs processes that create a distance between the hand of the artist and the canvas. In this body of work he masks areas within the painting to ‘conceal’ under painting. The masking is then removed and the painting ‘revealed’. It is this unpredictability that he enjoys. The artist is blind in one eye and takes influence from the abstract language his brain occasionally receives from his blind eye; ripples and forms of light, frequencies pulsing with changing tone. In this body of work there are two series ‘apertures’ and ‘debris’. The ‘aperture’ series makes reference to the eye but also to influences from other sources such as glacial moulins and microscopic images of lacuna in bones. They appear to be gateways to voids. He say’s ‘I want to create a place within these paintings for the viewer to contemplate’. The second series ‘debris’ combines many layered forms. They are inspired by images of cells. These paintings are more hectic as the eye dances to view them. They are constructed by a repetitive process of ‘concealing’ the under painting. After being worked for weeks the forms build up and morph. ‘I paint to make sense of, or to amalgamate the visual elements that I find interesting. My hope is that the viewer investigates or locates the origin of the image, questions how its made or is moved by its presence. We all occupy two worlds; the one we all share and the abstract one that only we inhabit’. To contact rob: robevansartist@gmail.com www.robertedwardevans.co.uk
Painting:Oil on Other
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In my work I try to entertain a dialogue between science and art. I have developed over the years a need to paint images that require the viewer to ask the questions... What is it? How was it made? Images from nature such as ice formations, microbiology, geology and topography are often starting points for my paintings. However I am not interested in merely copying these images but emulating their structures. I want the viewer to see these influences within the painting but for the painting to hold something more...its own "˜spirit'. Sometimes this requires me to find new processes for applying paint or using non traditional materials. One series of work entitled 'sastrugi formations' came about after photographing ice formations on the top of a mountain near Callender, Stirlingshire. I decided to make a series of paintings that mimicked the structures seen. I did this by manipulating un-stretched canvas and by then pouring paint over the canvas. As the paint dried into the crevasses I slowly stretched the canvas tight over stretchers. This masked the painting 'process' making it difficult for the viewer to identify. The paintings took on their own nature distant from the touch or mark of the artists hand. Strangely when exhibiting this work I was randomly approached by the Professor of Ice and Snow studies at UCL who informed me that what I had visually created was nearly identical to that which he had viewed through a microscope that day of an ice crystal. In 1997 I lost the sight in my right eye. This has had a profound effect on my work and outlook! Since this point I have been interested in painting the visual messages my brain receives from my blind eye; ripples and circles of light, frequencies pulsing with changing tone....an abstract visual language and unfortunately one that can only be recorded by my brain. I paint to make sense of, or to amalgamate the visual elements that I find interesting. My hope is that the viewer investigates or locates the origin of the image, questions how its made or is moved by its presence. We all occupy two worlds; the one we all share and the abstract one that only we inhabit. Evans graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1997 with a MFA and he has exibited throughout England and Scotland since then. http://www.instagram.com/robevansartist
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