PHOEBE EVANS

Phoebe Evans is a London based painter. In 2022 Phoebe graduated with a First-Class BA Hons in Fine Art Painting at Camberwell College of Arts. She is currently about to graduate from the MA Painting programme at the Royal College of Art, London. Working with oil paints, Phoebe utilises magic realism to draw on the process of the sublime and the liminal of everyday. Harmonizing colour and exploring perspective, the environments become an aesthetic ideal. Phoebe’s rearticulated harmonic spaces index the past, present and a future that never arrives, are recurring motifs within her practice. Saturated monochromes are used to reimagine vivid dreamscapes, which invite an audience to view space and time through a tinted lens. Collective memory and personal experience trigger a yearning for nostalgia, times gone by and lost memories that haunt the now. Eerie scenes of domesticity create a feeling of longing and a surreal sensation of odd familiarity that we have been here before. Homes we have never entered, staircases we never climbed become portals to the fading facade of both the artist’s and audience’s memory captured in a static moment that stills the flux of change. The shadow between reality and fiction.