Born in Peterborough UK in 1941, Oliver Bevan trained at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney, Patrick Caulfield, Gulamohammed Sheikh and R. B Kitaj. Since 2001, Bevan has been based in Uzès, in the Gard Department in Southern France.

Throughout his career Bevan’s art has been dominated by a fascination with light and colour: the play of light and colour on forms, coloured light reflected on water, the rhythm of light and colour on the canvas. Each series of works represents a distinct period of his artistic life. Bevan began his career as a highly successful Op artist in the 1960s and 70s. Back in London in the late 1970s following a key period teaching drawing and painting at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, he turned to gestural realism, tackling themes of urban decay and renewal in taut compositions that echo his earlier preoccupation with purely abstract geometries. Notably since 2000 his subject matter has broadened to include European cityscapes and landscape. Bevan has continued painting and exhibiting since his first London solo show in 1965 and works by the artist can be found in many public collections in the UK and internationally, as well as in numerous private collections worldwide.

For more detail see his CV

photo © Joe McLean