Tony Bevan creates works that have a strong emphasis on expression and mark making. In an interview with Marco Livingstone, Bevan expressed of his practice “Because I am painting and drawing on the floor, the debris of their making gets locked in there with the acrylic medium and remains visible… Charcoal is a very raw material, very direct; I think it’s that directness, those qualities that attract me to it.”[1]

Architecture is a primary influence and inspiration for Bevan in producing large scale graphic compositions. The work Studio Furniture PC0222, 2002, encapsulates Bevan’s ability to push to boundaries between representation and abstraction, construction and deconstruction. Bevan comments of his arc...