Biography

Mel Evans is a freelance artist specialising in figurative works. She paints using oils in a predominantly realistic way and takes
inspiration from unusual and contrasting light and in trying to capture a feel or emotion through a look or expression. Having lived and worked in Brighton and briefly Cambridge, Mel now resides in Eastbourne with her daughter. She has also exhibited in Cardiff and London and continues to organises group exhibitions and charity art auctions. The majority of her time is spent creating new exhibition pieces, however, she also undertakes private painting commissions. Mel has been looking at the shadows thrown by bodies and how she can capture a concentrated moment in a shared experience periodically for the last twenty years.
She has come to compositionally abstract areas of a figure or figures. Using white light and the exposed stretched linen that she paints upon, she highlights the colours and positioning of the anatomy, in an attempt to capture the intimacy and memory of a moment shared or experienced. More recently Mel has been painting family hand ‘portraits’ that capture the delicacy and care of a babies hand or foot cradled by their loved ones. She is currently offering these commissions as a stylish alternative to the classic baby photo shoot. Mel has also been studying the lush colours in botanicals and fruits and enjoying the beauty of the everyday nature that so often passes us by.

Mel has a BA Hons degree from University Wales Institute, Cardiff in Art & Aesthetics. The course comprised of fine art practice as well as philosophical and art historical theory. The conceptual debates this course stimulated are still current in her work today.

All images used courtesy of Mel Evans