Kimberley Bevan
After graduating from the University of Hertfordshire in 2004 with a BA (Hons) in Applied Media Arts (3D), Kimberley Bevan was awarded a five-year fellowship with Digswell Arts Trust. During which time she began to exhibit in London and Europe while working with other artists on international exhibitions and local educational programs.
In 2009 she was awarded a board trustee position where she continued to work in support of local arts projects in collaboration of various authorities. A few years later she would leave DAT to develop a new local art group – Elysian, the group of artists worked across a number of mixed mediums and feed into one another theories and arts ideologies, her work would grow to be exhibited locally, nationally and internationally.
In 2021, she moved with her family to Norfolk and now teaches for East Coast College as well as Art pocket in central Norwich. Exploring the curious lives of Circus performers her work is a dramatization of narrative, colour and texture which pulls the viewer into a vicarious world full of danger and risk.
Kimberley’s work is a mosaic of layered mediums, concocting experimental and rich techniques which are unique to her touch. Her natural approach embeds all manner of mediums such as metallic Acrylic Inks, Car spray paints to 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 builds exciting rhythm across the canvas.
The current collection of work explores both Landscapes and Portraits, analyzing her innate observation of colour and contrast, allowing a 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, which whittle away at people’s lives, aiming to capture an unconventional moment which provides the viewer with a brief glimpse of another world. Over the last two years her work has developed a great fascination with traveling Circus performers, specifically the strange voyeuristic connection humans develop as a member of the audience, circuses are a strange and magical arena whereby the audience is encouraged to live vicariously through a stranger sometimes risking their live on a daily death defining acts.
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