Kerri-Jane Evans
"The painting process is all important to me. I do not plan my work; it begins without the conditioning of idea or even conception. It is through the action of painting that the compositions arrive, the figures move and adjust in relationship… they come and go and are my primary vehicle of expression. Figurative representation is where I find my greatest delight, that sense of pleasure and identification with the emotional aspects of life.
Figures move through their own, most often, bare space, they emerge without imagery, symbol, devoid of inheritance. They isolate moments of movement through a long narrative of inner and outer conflict and address the need for resolution and harmony.
In this very act of painting, the physical application of paint – through this energetic stillness – subtle “felt” perceptions arise and my imagination grows with these perceptions. The movement of thought, of idea, of relationship, my relationship with the painting, with the world in me and around me…the images unfold through this dynamic and become the journey, the way to comprehending the self."
Kerri Evans
August 2007
Biography
1987-1990 BFA Fine Art, Rhodes University - Distinction in painting
1991-1992 Teacher at the Mmabana Cultural Centre, Mmabatho
1992-1993 Manager of small hotel, Sakatia Island, Madagascar
1991-2000 Worked on commissions, copies of the Masters and Portrait work.
Some copies included, Giotto, Van Eyck, Cranach, Stubbs, Rembrandt, Turner, Durer, Thomas Baines
1993-1996 Teacher at the Johannesburg Art Gallery
1996-1999 Teacher at the Field and Study Centre, Parkmore
1998-2000 Teacher at Sandton Civic Gallery, Figure studies.
2000–2008 Moved to India as a full time professional artist, exhibiting regularly at the Everard Read Gallery.
2009 Moved back to South Africa
