Bob Evans Exhibition Bob Evans Pictures
Bob Evans was born in Hampshire in 1940. He lived in Hampshire, Germany and Kent until 1957. His grammar school misled him into a career in Pharmarcy ameliorated by playing trumpet in a jazz band. On abandoning this path he travelled, worked, painted and married. In 1968 he began to study Art, first in Birmingham, then in Nottingham. This experience depressed him so much that he became an art teacher, only escaping after ten gruesome years. Frequent visits to France maintained his admiration for the painting of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the eighties he left full time teaching to concentrate on painting and exhibiting. By 1992 he had become freelance, selling paintings, organising exhibitions of his own and other's work and working with advertising and design companies. Since then he has shown work in many galleries, visited Spain, Mexico and Morocco and continues to paint and exhibit work regularly. Bob Evans lives and works in Nottingham, UK. Principal Exhibitions 1968 Bux Bookshop, Nottingham 1974 Midland Group, Nottingham 1977 Midland Group, Nottingham 1978 Coracle Gallery, London 1980-82 Art & The Sea, ICA and touring 1983-1993 Studio shows biannually, Nottingham 1987-89 Work at various London galleries 1988 University of Nottingham 1990 Blackfriars Art Centre, Boston 1990-93 Organised exhibitions at the Chapel Gallery, Nottingham 1993-96 Exhibited at Picture This and Byard Gallery, Nottingham 1996-99 Exhibited at Sonny's, Mayfield's, The Academy, La Boheme, Nottingham 1999-2005 Exhibited at various venues in Nottingham, supplied paintings and/or decorative schemes for; The Crown and Mitre, Newark, The Queen's Head, Beverley, Restaurante Studio, Ibiza Butler & Bone's, Brasseries 69, Mencap Cafe, Saffron Restaurant. 2005-23 Exhibitions at The Lincolnshire Poacher and The Nottingham Society of Artists |