Kimberley Bevan/ Figurative Art

Kimberley's work is a mosaic of layered mediums, concocting experimental and rich techniques that are unique to her touch. Her natural approach embeds all manner of mediums such as metallic Acrylic Inks, Car spray paints, Acrylic, and Oil paints, sometimes, there are also areas of printing and stencil marks, adding depth and balance to complex and dynamic compositions. Kimberley’s natural expressive painting style adopts loose swishing brush marks, which balance the mediums and build an exciting rhythm across the canvas.

The current collection of work explores both Landscapes and Portraits, analysing her innate observation of colour and contrast, allowing the construction of tension between the textures/layers, mark-making, and form. While her landscapes encapsulate natural atmospheric conditions of beauty, her Portraits are about the man-made human exaggeration of the fleeting moment of beauty.

Her imaginative portraits cultivate stories that whittle away at people's lives, aiming to capture an unconventional moment that provides the viewer with a brief glimpse of another world. Over the last two years, her work has developed a great fascination with travelling Circus performers, specifically the strange voyeuristic connection humans develop as members of the audience. Circuses are a strange and magical arena whereby the audience is encouraged to live vicariously through a stranger, sometimes risking their life daily in death-defying acts.