charles evans

Charles Evans born and bred as a country boy in 1953 in the then West Riding of Yorkshire, I had the privilege of a childhood spent playing in the fields and woods, rivers and lakesides around the farm where I was born and brought up. This fuelled an already inbred appreciation of the countryside, and the wonders and workings of it. Like most kids, I had always drawn and played with coloured pencils, but even at a very early age I was always striving to make the drawings better, and unlike most kids whose heroes were Batman and Superman and so forth, my heroes were Turner, Flint and Constable. I would wonder at the magic, mood and atmosphere that Turner managed to get into his skies, and marveled how Constable managed to get the effect of his trees.

After a fairly conventional schooling, I studied at Lincoln College of Art and finally turned to the medium of watercolour. Watercolour is the traditional English medium because, as many artists have discovered, it captures the beautiful sense of atmosphere, haziness, dampness and watery skies of the British landscape. In the mid seventies there was no living to be made out of such art, so I turned my attention to catering and had a long and successful career in catering. Whilst still working in that trade, I was commissioned by the National Coal Board, as it was then, to paint a series of paintings of pits and pit villages. This led to a very long and fruitful alliance with the Coal Board and they would commission paintings of either dark and gloomy pit scenes, or dark overcast moorland scenes. Many of these paintings were presented to prominent MPs of the time who visited various pit situations.

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