2024
Nicholas Evans is an American, Paris-based artist, designer and creative director. Painting is a cornerstone of Evans’s artistic expression, which is largely inspired by personal events, religious symbolism, and historical allegories.
In addition to traditional oil and acrylics, Evans uses materials such as plasters, wax, salt and found objects in his works, presenting a way to seek new meaning in elements that have collapsed or eroded over time. Threads of poetry convey the fragmented logic of suffering, lost love and redemption that push him to create.
After early success in New York’s fashion and creative industry — followed by nearly losing his life to addiction — a liver transplant gave way to a new perspective and allowed Evans to reinvent himself. Inspired to revisit the rudiments of expression through his first love of painting, Nicholas began working under the moniker of Evans Deventer to present his art.
Through Evans Deventer, he is continuously intrigued by the “decayed decadence” of long-held traditions and the looming past, and how to represent them visually. Evans Deventer is also represented as a brick and mortar space, which he designed in 2015, featuring furniture, jewelry and objects, in addition to artwork.
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"It Trails You" (contemporary, original painting, pattern, abstract, bold)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
IT TRAILS YOU 2025 Paris, France This bold abstract oil painting on natural linen canvas uses a single deep dark green-blue color applied in thick, fluid layers. The paint creates l...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Set Us In Stone I" (abstract, blue, Parisian, graphic, bust on natural canvas)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
SET US IN STONE I 2022 Paris, France Originally created as part of Nicholas' solo exhibition "This, and Thereafter (Plumes)," December 10, 2022 - January 7, 2023. The theme illustrated the enigmatic uncertainty around what might happen after life. A range of paintings were presented – vibrant and ethereal – touching on different aspects of this notion. Each painting had a different point of view, oftentimes focusing around the inevitability of what is to come, and if and how it influences the present. This particular piece centers around personal legacy, how you will be remembered, and how your life vanishes into an abstraction as time goes by. This notion is visualized with a bust set in stone. The technique Evans used was a mixing of water-based ink with a hint of blue, that he knew would react when overlaid with white acrylic, pulling out a lighter hue of the blue ink. The white silhouette of a portrait set in stone creates a ghostly continuation of the underlaid pattern. Option to create a pair alongside "Set Us In Stone II" (as pictured). Price and size are per painting. Evans Deventer...
Canvas, India Ink, Acrylic
"Overtures Like That" (abstract, floral, dye, orange, brown, antique linen)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
OVERTURES LIKE THAT 2024 Paris, France This painting portrays a mysterious pattern. The almost living floral shapes and organic shadows allude to both beauty and danger in an abstr...
Linen, Dye
"Saeculum Obscurum" (abstract, stone, dye, natural, brown, antique linen)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
SAECULUM OBSCURUM 2024 Paris, France This painting seeks to evoke the layers of time and excess, capturing the hollow aftermath of decayed grandeur associated with the 10th-century ...
Linen, Dye
"Day Remains I" (abstract, blue dye, deep red, yellow, framed painting, cotton)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
"Day Remains I", 2023, Paris, France Rich painting of blue dye, deep red and yellow ochre oil paint, on natural, antique cotton. Consider pairing with its counterpart "Day Remains I...
Linen, Dye, Oil
"Ghost of the Gardens" (original flora, floral, vibrant, abstract landscape)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
"Ghosts of the Gardens" is a mysterious and captivating abstract painting, evoking the untamed beauty of wild gardens and chaotic floral motifs with its energetic and loose movement....
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic
Painting with linen, beeswax and natural pigments, blue and brown
Located in Carballo, ES
The painting measures 77 x 33 cm and is an old linen sack filled with polyurethane foam. The pigments include beeswax, oxide vinegar, indigo blue, and natural graphite. The work is ...
Canvas, Wax, Graphite, Pigment
"Recent Memory" - abstract, teal, nature-based, flowing
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on canvas is a mixed media abstract work featuring hues of blue and green. Evan is inspired by the works of Frank Bowling, Helen Frankenthaler, Candida Alvarez and Dorothy...
Canvas, Mixed Media
Blue on Blue (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Blue on Blue (Abstract painting) Oil on wood panel - Unframed. She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom ...
Oil, Wood Panel
Blue on Blue (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Oil on wood panel - Unframed. She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of the surface. An interplay of co...
Oil, Wood Panel
Blue on Blue (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Blue on Blue (Abstract painting) Oil on wood panel - Unframed. She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom ...
Oil, Wood Panel
Blue View (Abstract Painting)
By Marcy Rosenblat
Located in London, GB
Blue View (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on canvas - Unframed The textured appearance of her paintings emanates from the intervention of common household products such as paper towels...
Canvas, Acrylic
