Beguiled by the interplay between the scalable and the infinite, between immensity and intimacy, Susan Evans paints the sky as she experiences it.

Eschewing the impressionistic bombast of most painters who strive to represent sea and sky, Evans isn’t interested in encasing the illimitable in a concept, a ‘view’, - the only limitation that interests her is the frame. So she dispenses with horizon, with grandeur or depth, imparting the sense of awe that animates her to paint the picture by bringing the viewer directly into the plane of vision.

It is this keynote of containing and intensifying vastness that guides her…

Beguiled by the interplay between the scalable and the infinite, between immensity and intimacy, Susan Evans paints the sky as she experiences it.

Eschewing the impressionistic bombast of most painters who strive to represent sea and sky, Evans isn’t interested in encasing the illimitable in a concept, a ‘view’, - the only limitation that interests her is the frame. So she dispenses with horizon, with grandeur or depth, imparting the sense of awe that animates her to paint the picture by bringing the viewer directly into the plane of vision.

It is this keynote of containing and intensifying vastness that guides her gestures: she reads scale as ‘a limiting factor to convey the limitless’.

She usually displays her work in triptychs, underscoring the speed and power of her compositions by creating movement across the pictorial space. Lyrically observed and intuitively channelled onto canvas, Susan Evans’ work acts like a revelation, a reminder of why painters used to migrate in droves to live by the sea.

The 2000 winner of the National Peterborough First Open prize, Susan Evans has shown prolifically since graduating from the Chelsea College of Art in 1995.

With solo exhibitions in London and Bath in the past few years, and group shows in Cornwall, the Whitechapel Open, and Royal Festival Hall under her belt, her work is collected internationally by institutions like Exeter College in Oxford, the Peterborough Museum, and Live Wire in California.