Rob Evans

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...

1995 -1997 Slade School of Fine Art London. MFA painting.
1991 - 1994 Staffordshire University. Ba Hons Fine Art 1st Class.
1989 - 1991 Bournemouth College of art and design.