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Terry
Evans was born in 1943 in Romford, Essex. He is a big,
outgoing and popular man, which he modestly puts down to
being born under the sign of Aries the Ram.
He started painting for self-satisfaction; his subjects
were portraits, racing-cars and dogs. He experimented
with watercolour and acrylics, and then he tried oils.
He explains that this was a turning point in his career
as he found the expressive freedom of working in paint
that stayed workable for days. A second breakthrough
came when he used oils to paint landscapes. By popular
demand he turned professional and for many years he has
enjoyed a runaway success.
Terry Evans attended art school at Hornsea but his
unique and distinctive style was inspired by the
renowned artist, Charles Lefar. Terry has taken the
approach further and developed it into a style uniquely
his own. An 'Evans' is much more detailed, and crisper
in technique, than his mentor's work. Terry generously
loads the canvas with oil paint, lavishly applied with
gusto. The canvasses groan under the weight and the
paintings tell of a wilderness with running water,
glades, rocks, pools, mountains, trees and flowers.
Terry Evans lives on the South Coast and paints every
day at his easel.
His pictures are of unspoilt nature in the raw. Not even
an old rotting fence-post is allowed to spoil these
landscapes. No-where in an Evans will you find a trace
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