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Paul Evans, Persistence Works, Sheffield (extract)
“Paul Evans’ exhibition of recent paintings is titled The Shroud and there is definitely something numinous about these deceptively simple semi-abstract images. The surface marks draw you in with aesthetic charm but there always appears to be something elusive beyond…He quotes da Vinci “A painting moves in the mind.” He’s on the move and one to watch out for.”
Paul Evans After Nature, Cupola Contemporary Art Sheffield (extract)
“Paul Evans’ paintings hover enticingly between evocations of landscapes and biological intimations. Drawing a link between the forces that drive the tides and the weather and the forces that motivate human emotion and psychology. Evans at his best achieves a resonant ambiguity somewhere between the atmospheric air of Romanticism and gestural abstraction.”
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Shroud (extract)
“Space is a major component of Paul Evans’ intriguingly empty pictures, bringing
a transcendent, meditative quality to paintings whose content blurs the boundaries between figurative and abstract art. His forms, barely tangible yet distinctly emotional, are conveyed in delicately graceful, flowing lines.
Shroud includes a series inspired by pietas: the classic religious image of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Christ. Evans’ secular versions, the dance/mother and child series were inspired by an image of a mother and her child discovered in East Harlem on a visit to New York. Moved by the way the vulnerability and gentleness
of the relationship contrasted with the harshness of the deprived urban environment, the images he creates are at once enigmatic, tender and graceful.” Tina Jackson
East meets West on the canvas (extract)
“Oil and water is the title of an exhibition of recent paintings by Paul Evans at Clock Tower Gallery. His paintings use oil and water colour to express a range of emotions based on the contrasting cultural traditions of East and West.” Ian Soutar
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