Geraint Evans

Geraint Evans is interested in the ways in which we perceive, encounter and experience the natural world and read it as landscape. His figurative, narrative driven paintings employ a stylized pictorial language to explore the idea that landscape is largely a social and cultural construct, responding to the writer W J T Mitchell's observation that "landscape is a natural scene mediated by culture" (Mitchell 2002:5).

His work depicts manicured or fabricated gardens and parks, shopping malls and suburban green belts, national parks and theme parks. The fictional protagonists that populate these landscapes include heavy metal campers, nudist hikers and ornamental hermits.

He is interested in both the hybridized space in which the built and natural environments meet and in our complex perception of the wilderness. The effect of ever evolving technologies and mass tourism on our perception of the natural world is another important aspect of his practice.

Geraint grew up in Swansea, Wales and studied at Manchester Polytechnic and the Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 1993. He currently lives and works in London.

He is currently the pathway leader for the MA Fine Art Painting course at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.