Who was nichnicholas Evans?

Who was nichnicholas Evans?

Nicholas Evans (10 January 1907 – 5 February 2004) was a self-taught Welsh artist from Aberdare, in the Cynon Valley.

Was Nicholas Evans the original self-made artist?

The art world dreams of discovering the genuine original: the self-made, solitary visionary. In 1978 it found one in the railwayman and painter Nicholas Evans, who has died aged 97. Like that earlier “discovered” painter, Alfred Wallis, he was untrained and uninfluenced, and for a moment his discovery caused a similar storm of excitement.

What happened to EV Evans’ Art?

Evans was a prolific artist and much of his work remains, un-photographed and un-catalogued, in the custody of his two sons, in a secure storeroom. It has been estimated that, of Evans’ entire output, only five percent is currently on public display.

What kind of art did William Evans do?

Many of his paintings are rendered in black and white, or with dark greys and dark blues and Evans was particularly adept at drawing colliers’ tools and the brutal structures of the coalmine. Evans continued to paint until well into his nineties.