Audrey Evans was born in Sidcup Kent but her family moved to Margate during the war years. Audrey attended Margate and Thanet Art School and met her husband Bernard at the London University Institute of Education in the mid 1950s - they married in 1957. After periods in Durham, Cheshire and Nottinghamshire, the family moved to Newlyn in 1976. Audrey has been a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists since the 1980s.

Audrey Evans and Bernard Evans

From 1976 to 2004 Audrey worked with Bernard organising and teaching at the Mounts Bay

this period. They specalised in teaching landscape painting in West Cornwall and gave classes in the large studio which adjoins the main house.

Audrey has travelled widely with Bernard where they have both painted in the USA, Italy, Oman, France, Holland and South Africa.  

Audrey Evans works in gouache, pastel and watercolour. Her subject matter is landscape, particularly that of the Penwith peninsula and her work is based on direct observation. She is also a keen draughtswoman and wood engraver.

Audrey is plays the double bass for the Newlyn Reelers and Golowan Band.  

Group Exhibitions   Newlyn Society of Artists
Avalon Gallery
Trelissick Gallery, Truro
Small Prints Gallery, Penzance
Bradford on Avon
Garrick Prize exhibitions, Christies

'Mounts Bay Garden'
Pastel 13" x 17"

View from Faugan House, top of Paul Hill in Newlyn 

'Newlyn, Old Quay'
Wood Engraving  3" x 4.5"  

'Newlyn Harbour'
Gouache 15" x 12"