March 2025

‘PORTALS’

Phoebe Evans
6th - 23rd March 2025

Phoebe Evans (b.2000) is a painter living and working in London. Her practice utilises magic realism to draw on the process of the sublime and the liminal. Harmonising colour and exploring perspective, the environments become a fantasy of reality. The attention to atmosphere and tonality, however, is what pushes these paintings away from the known and into an abstract space. The beguiling hues and soft brushwork shifts the work to the concept of limitlessness and the endless possibility of dreaming minds.

By drawing the eye into a space devoid of objects, Evans reduces the room to a pure atmosphere. Her paintings engage with the body’s stillness and a lingering sense of anticipation. Exploring the idea of doors opening into nothingness, they suggest that stepping through may lead somewhere unknown. In these empty homes, an eerie quality emerges as our senses are no longer distracted by the intimate presence of objects. This absence compels the viewer to focus solely on the space itself, heightening awareness of our own presence within these imagined rooms, filling them with only what exists in our minds. Without anything inside, a house is not a home. Instead, these impossible spaces become facilitators of imagination, nostalgia and unease. Cinematographic in essence, the rooms represented by Evans transports the viewer into the painter’s metaphorical home and intimate history. Becoming passageways into the artist’s life, the artworks are vessels leading both artist and audience in their respective subconscious.

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Blue Shop Gallery | 72 Brixton Road, Oval