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. ANTHONY EVANS
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(in private collections)
"DauCaeauGlas/TwoBlueFields",
2001
acrylic on canvas
107x107cm
"DauCaeauGlas/TwoBlueFields",
2001
acrylic on canvas
47x56cm
"Hafod&Hendre/U&L.landFarm",
2002
acrylic on canvas
90x90cm
Anthony Evans was born in 1948 in Glanaman, Carmarthenshire. From 1968 to 1971 he studied at Trinity College Carmarthen and from 1979 to 1982 at Cardiff Institute of Higher Education. For years he taught in schools but eventually gave it up in order to concentrate on his painting and work as a children's book illustrator, ident designer for TV as well as theatre & film set designer.
Artist's Statement: "Feelings, emotions, dreams, memories and of course, Wales - these are the main elements that are the foundations of my vision as an artist.
Using familiar and ordinary subject matter I attempt to create a visual language of symbols, signs and colour through which I can make sense of the world and life in general.
An integral part of the creative process for me is to re-discover hidden and forgotten paths that have played an important part in my life and in so doing, tell a story of that journey.
Through the use of memory and the investigation of past incidents, I find it possible to establish an identity as an artist and thus record a narrative of the self." (quoted by kind permission of the artist from one of his fly-sheet).
Teaching Experience: 1971-76 in two Primary Schools in Carmarthan; 1976-78 in a Secondary School in the Rhondda; 1978-1990 Glyn Taf Secondary School in Cardiff.
Awards: 1994 Christmas Ident S4C International Prize; 1998 Artist Book of The Year A.C.W. with Iwan Llwyd (Bard); 2002 Academie Bilingue Des Arts De Bretagne 2nd Prize.
Commissions: 2004 an edition of 40 linoprints with watercolour for Confreys Solicitors; ten paintings (acrylic on canvas) for a hotel in Cardiff Bay.
International Links:
exhibitions abroad: 1993 Mumbles Gallery Minneapolis/USA; 1994 'Made in Wales' exh. in Pisa, Eidal/Italy; 1995 'Contemporary Art from Wales' exh. in Iseldiroedd/Netherlands; 'Works on Paper' exh. in Rajasthan/India; exh.at Open Ateliers in Bielefeld/Germany; 1996 Goethe, Faust in Germany; 1997 6x6 exh.in Belgium; 1998 OLA Show in Ireland; Welsh Group exh.in Ireland; exh.at the Centre Historique Minier/France; 2001 Welsh Group exh.in Libramont/France; 2002 exh.at the Salon Bilingue des Arta de Bretagne in Brittany/France (all mixed); 2003 Welsh Group travelling exhib. to North America (mixed).
prizes won abroad: 2nd at the 5eme Salon Bilingue Des Arts De Bretagne/France
