David Evans Prints

David Pugh Evans ARCA RSA RSW (1942 -2020) was a Welsh born artist, raised in Abercarn in South Wales. David began his study of fine art at Newport College of Art from 1959 – 1962 where he earned his Bachelor’s degree. After this, Evans moved to London to study an MFA at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney and Ian Dury where, upon graduating in 1965, he was awarded the RSA Silver Medal in recognition of his technical ability and conceptual awareness.

After his studies, Evans settled in Edinburgh where he lectured painting & Drawing at Edinburgh College of Art in 1965. During his tenure, Evans took a sabbatical to the USA, travelling across the country on Greyhound Busses, collecting visual material through drawings and photographs that would later inform a large body of work exploring American architecture and culture that would span decades.

 Evans’ work developed considerably over time. As a young artist, he experimented with a range of mediums, creating large scale landscapes of local Welsh mining towns using gauche, watercolours and charcoal. During his time at the Royal College, he began experimenting with perspective and compositions, using rich colour palates and thick oil paint to create work reminiscent of surrealist work by René Magritte and André Breton. As his practice developed Evans adopted a muted colour palette, opting to focus on light and architecture. Influenced by Edward Hopper, much of his work from his professional career consists of interior scenes, still lives and building facades; these, at first, appearing mundane however revealing subtle yet compelling details over time.

Evans retired from lecturing in 1998 and continued to produce work in his home studio in Edinburgh until his passing in 2020.