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. Until a
recent move to Cambridge, Mel lived and worked in Brighton. She has also exhibited in Cardiff and London and organises group
exhibitions under the name of Eine Frieda Vintage Ausstellung. The majority of her time is spent creating new exhibition pieces, however, she also undertakes private painting commissions. Mel previously completed a series of blind continuous line drawings and circle line drawings in a linear and stylised fashion, which are still available as high quality giclee prints, but has more recently been looking at the shadows thrown by bodies and how she can capture a concentrated moment in a shared experience.
Lately, Mel 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. 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