Bernard Evans 's Cornwall landscape works re mainly in oils. His subject matter is the visible world which surrounds him both in West Cornwall. He is a figurative painter and an observer of the visible world which provides him with the subject matter, the colour relationships and the formal shapes which are the basis of his picture making. Subject matter is important to him and a sympathy or identification with his subject is an essential element of his painting. For Bernard Evans, over emphasis on abstraction of form can lead to a break with reality and an impoverishment of expression. He relishes the use of the rules of perspective and proportion.
Bernard enjoys the light and form of the coastal landscape of West Cornwall and the rich life and colour of the fishing port of Newlyn in an age when the duller colours of the fishing vessels, equipment and clothes of the Victorian era have been replaced by a kaleidoscope of bright colours with the use of modern paints and plastics. Many of his ideas on colour are based on the teaching of Martin Bloch who taught at Camberwell in the 1950s and still influences Bernard's work to this day.
