Jeremy Bevan
Jeremy Bevan was born in 1953 and spent his childhood in the South Downs in Sussex. He studied art in Chichester, Leeds and Cardiff, then moved into horticulture and built a career in gardening and later garden design in North London. He rediscovered his art practice in the early 2000s and moved with his family to Wiveton on the North Norfolk coast in 2021, where the Bothy Project built him a studio in the garden. He works mainly in acrylic and mixed media, and has also produced limited edition linocut and screen prints. He has exhibited in London and Norfolk, and was shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize at the Holt Festival in 2023 and 2024. He is an active member of North Norfolk Open Studios.
Artist Statement
I am perhaps best known now for my acrylic and mixed media paintings which are becoming increasingly more abstract while retaining some figurative elements.
My artistic process begins with observational drawings of natural forms, landscapes, and plants, created on-site or in my garden studio. From these starting points I explore and abstract with layers of texture, colour and mark to create works that try to express my love of landscape, plants and the natural world.