Portrait Man

Tony Bevan is a British painter and draughtsman working primarily in charcoal, pastel, and oil on paper and canvas. His practice centres on large-scale gestural abstraction and portraiture, often working from photographic source material to create works marked by heavy impasto and vigorous mark-making. Born in 1951, Bevan emerged within the context of postwar European painting revival. His work oscillates between figuration and abstraction, with particular attention to the expressive potential of the human head and face rendered through accumulated, sometimes violent mark-making.

Bradford, UK