Bryan Evans

After getting all my urban landscape paintings finished for my solo show in Rothesay earlier this year I felt like being a little more experimental so I returned to my ‘stripe theme . These are four of the paintings I’ve managed to complete in the last couple of months . Three are acrylic on board and one , ‘Ripples on Elke ‘ watercolour .

I’ve been experimenting with some smaller than usual acrylic paintings recently . When working on this scale I feel I have to pare down the image to its basic elements . It concentrates the mind somewhat .These are around 18×12 cm in size .

 

 

I’ve produced five new reproduction prints to coincide with my solo show at the Castle Gallery , Rothesay . They are :

‘Clyde Lights – approaching Rothesay’

‘Through the square window’

‘Twilight -Port Bannatyne’

‘Rothesay Twilight – from the ferry’

‘Arches & Reflections- Mount Stuart House’ .

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My exhibition , ‘Of Bute & Beyond ‘ opens at the Castle Gallery , Rothesay on Sat May 4th and continues for three weeks . Here’s a taster of the work on show .

My new 2024 calendar is now available to buy . It’s an A3 wallhanging one with one ( or on one page , two ) of my images to enjoy each month . Click on the ‘shop’ link for more details and to buy

Over the years I’ve painted many pictures of Kelvingrove Park . The gates at the southern end of the park sometimes flood after heavy rain and I’ve always been  fascinated by the reflections caused by this . This is one of a number of pictures I’ve done , attempting  to capture the effect . The subject captures in one image many of my painterly interests – reflections , dusk lights and some of Glasgow’s lovely Victorian tenement buildings .

Over the last few years I’ve been working on a series of paintings involving stripes and the human body . In many ways , it’s difficult for me to explain exactly what I’m doing with these pieces but they are fundamentally a visual experiment , attempting to define the human form with the stripes . Some of the paintings have almost been portraits but , in this one I’ve used less of the model’s body (just part of the legs ) and tried to make the striped pattern do more of the work . Anyhow …. there’ll be more in the series if I can find models prepared for the indignity of clothing and wrapping themselves in stripes . Acrylic on board – 50x39cm

‘A visitor to the tenement’ . I’ve been doing paintings of Glasgow tenement closes for over 30 years , but in all that time I’d never visited the city’s Tenement house museum in Garnethill . Well , a few weeks ago I managed to see it for the first time and what a lovely little museum it is .

It’s a little one bedroom flat that was lived in from 1911 until 1965 by Agnes Toward . What’s remarkable though , is that in all that time it remained pretty much unchanged and has remained so ever since. Agnes kept all the original furniture and fittings and didn’t even change the gas lighting to electricity until , I believe the 1960s . A visit to the flat today is truly like a trip back in time to the 19^th century .

I chose not to depict the interior but the close is a lovely one , so I thought I’d have a go at painting that and this is the result . Acrylic on board , 30×21 cm

I’m very pleased to say that this painting , ‘On the edge ‘ is going to be exhibited at the Wales Contemporary 2022 open exhibition at the Waterfront Gallery , Milford Haven in October before moving to the Oxo Gallery in London in November