Elf Evans

I was originally inspired to paint Abstract Expressionist style paintings, because they meant freedom from being told what to do! Admittedly, to this day, I still have difficulty having someone tell me what I should paint or how I should achieve "their" vision. Now after some fifty plus years of doing what I do, it continues to amaze me, when a painting finishes itself. At first I used oils and pallet knives to apply the pigments now I use acrylic paint. For me the beauty is watching the paints spill from the buckets, tubes, containers onto the canvas and become the story. Sometime this occurs instandly and there have been times when a painting waited 4-5 years to become completed, as was the case of "On Calvary and Sadducees & Pharisees" both of which are in private collections. While the painting using just one color, white on canvas, titled "Less is More remains in my collection". My main concern is that the viewer/owner doesn't get all caught up in what it meant to me, rather what it means to them as they live with it. Please feel free to test yourself by having what ever experiences you like while checking out my work, it's all about you - Not Me.

Respectfully,

Elf Evans
6 July 2016
For me Photography is an Art F...

Abstract painter in 1960's, after studying at Hollowood Art Centre, began photography in 1980 after training at Santa Monica College and working as an assistant to Andy Strauss Commercial Photographer in California. Currently living in Saint Malo France.