Fifth Concession

About Fifth Concession

A feast of rich colours and dynamic form, this intriguing contemporary painting is by Gary Evans. For more than two decades, the Canadian artist has explored a unique visual narrative that is inspired and informed by the natural world.
This is a landscape re-imagined using both abstraction and realism.
The colour palette is a sumptuous medley of green, yellow, blue, melon, burgundy, turquoise, aubergine, gray, black and white. Expressive brushstrokes, lyrical markings, and organic shapes mingle to encircle a view of a pastoral countryside framed by a pale blue and cloud-filled sky.

“My interest in the organic interaction of shape, space and form, interior and exterior is a way to talk about the nature of cognition and consciousness that we all experience.” Gary Evans

“Evans has presented himself in show after show as an inventive colourist possessed by an equally inventive take on landscape painting. That often results in scenes of confounding density, which, with observer patience, settle into rich, combinative sequences of descriptive paint that pay homage to landscape in terms of not just spatial experience, but also in terms of accrued personal memory and passing real-time.” Richard Rhodes, Arts Writer/Editor

Gary Evans was born in England. He studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He is the Coordinator of the Georgian College Fine Arts program in Barrie, ON. His own art practice is robust; he has had dozens of solo exhibitions throughout Canada and Europe. His paintings have been widely collected in Canada both privately and publicly including the Museum London in London, Ontario and The Art Gallery of Kelowna, BC.