b. 1996, Surrey, UK
Lives and works in London
Pam Evelyn describes her paintings as “the accumulative healing from scars of failed attempts to realise a form”. The artist’s densely layered canvases have their routes partly in the spirit of Modern British landscape painting, but her improvisational and intuitive approach ultimately results in a level of complexity that resists any reading anchored in the physical world.
Evelyn received an MA in Painting from Royal College of Art, London in 2022. Recent exhibitions include ‘A Handful of Dust’, Pace Gallery, London (2023); ‘The Reason for Painting’, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, UK (2023); and ‘New British Abstraction’, Centre for International Contemporary Art, Vancouver, Canada (2023). In 2023, Evelyn was commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery, London, to create two etchings to accompany the major exhibition, ‘Action, Gesture, Paint Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970’ (2023).