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| Cliff Against the Light by Oliver Bevan 100cm x 81cm oil on canvas £2,600 |
This week we are introducing a new artist: Oliver Bevan.
Bevan is a British artist who
was born in Peterborough, UK, in 1941 and educated at Eton College.
After leaving
school he spent a year in 1959-60 working for Voluntary Service Overseas in
British North Borneo before returning to London to study painting at the Royal
College of Art, where he became strongly influenced by Op Art and in particular
the work of Victor Vasarely.
Bevan graduated from the RCA in 1964 and had his
first exhibition of Op Art-inspired paintings the following year. Optical,
geometric and kinetic art then served him well until the late 1970's. Then he
moved to the Canadian prairies for a two-year teaching post at the University
of Saskatchewan. By the time he returned to London in 1979 he had abandoned
abstract art in favour of figurative art and urban realism.
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| Low Tide Bedruthan oil on canvas 50cm x 50cm £1,200 |
In recent years he
has been drawn to the coast and produced some outstanding landscapes on the
North Coast of Cornwall some of which are currently showing at Beside The Wave.
You can view all of the paintings on our new web site or visit the gallery this week to see them on display.
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