Fine Art

Evelyn Blowers

Canvas with fridge magnet letters spelling out "Our NHS is not for sale. Our health cannot be valued." with burn marks and dripping plastic

1m x 1m canvas. Acrylic, impasto and candles on canvas.

I am an individual all the way from sleepy Suffolk where I have grown up always loving anything creative and art based. This love I had never left me and therefore I pursued a fine art degree. This degree has helped me expand my creative boundaries and learn new means of expressing myself. It has taught me that failure in exploring new means of art is not always a failure and that all art matters regardless of whether everyone agrees or not.

I make large-scale paintings using acrylic and a mixture of materials such as candles and thick impasto. I use paintings as a means to explore the combination of image and text and to experiment with statements that people are too afraid to say. These carefully chosen words and phrases are bold and constructed in such a way that they force the viewers to stop, consider and debate the words that are present in front of them.

My work has been strongly influenced by letterpress processes and my interest in the impact created by collisions between art and text. I find making these canvases incredibly liberating for myself as an artist — I am not a confrontational nor outspoken person, so creating these statements give me a means to express thoughts and opinions about problems that are forming around us in the world.

Connect with Evelyn
Photo of fridge magnets message on canvas with candles burning above
Orange canvas with paint splash and legend "With a change of heart I'm dangerous"
Green swirled canvas with paint splash and legend "The new chronic life. What's new?"
Canvas with fridge magnet letters spelling out "We need to confront climate change" with burn marks and dripping plastic
Red swirled canvas with paint splash and legend "A woman's labour of love..."
Canvas with fridge magnet letters spelling out "Don't touch this doesn't belong to you" with burn marks and dripping plastic
Photo of fridge magnets message on canvas with candles burning above
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