Bernard Evans


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Bernard Evans works mainly in oils. His subject matter is the visible world which surrounds him both in West Cornwall and in Central London. He is a figurative painter and an observer. Subject matter is important to him and a sympathy or identification with his subject is an essential element of his painting. He relishes the use of perspective and the creation of the illusion of three dimensions on a two dimensional surface through colour and proportion.

He 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of Newlyn in an age when the duller colours of the fishing vessels, equipment and clothes of the Victorian era have been replaced by brighter colours with the use of modern paints and plastics.

As a contrast, London with its huge scale and diversity both of form and of life, has provided him with the subject matter for a large series of works carried out in recent years.

Bernard Evans was born in Liverpool in 1929 and was a student at Liverpool College of Art and Camberwell School of Art. Many of his ideas on colour are based on the teaching of Martin Bloch who taught at Camberwell in the 1950s. Bernard Evans taught and lectured for 20 years in Cheshire and Nottingham then came down to Cornwall with Audrey his wife to run Mounts Bay Arts Centre which operated for 25 years from their house in Newlyn. He now works from his new studio built in the garden of his old house.

He has exhibited widely throughout his life and in recent years both in group exhibitions and in solo shows. He is a member and past chairman of the NSA (Newlyn Society of Artists).