London based painter Phoebe Evans graduated with a First Class BA in Fine Art Painting at Camberwell college of arts in 2022. She is currently undertaking an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art, London.
Evans introduces the viewer to a sublime and liminal space, depicting architectural dreamscapes carefully delineated by infinite shades of a monochrome. Ranging from pastel pinks and yellows, to dark blues and bright oranges, Evans draws on magic realism to explore perspective through harmonising colours. The domestic environments portrayed in her canvases, become an aesthetic ideal.
Collective memory and personal experience trigger a yearning for nostalgia, times gone by and lost memories that haunt the now. Eery scenes of domesticity create a feeling of longing and a surreal sensation of odd familiarity. Homes we have never entered, stairs we never climbed become portals to both the artist's and audience's memory captured in a static moment.
