Scraped and reshaped over several months, Evelyn’s vigorous canvases fuse the physicality of action painting with a contemporary gestural language

The expansive, abstract canvases of London-based painter Pam Evelyn (born 1996) are richly textured meditations on nature, the body and materiality. Her intuitive use of oil paints—carefully layered, scraped and rearticulated over several months—recalls the seething vitality of Abstract Expressionist painters while retaining a distinctly contemporary quality.

Text by: Yuval Etgar
Contributions by: Matthew Higgs