Art in the Ev: Catherine Evans-Jones

The Emotional Language of Form
Messages of hope
23 April – 28 May 2024

Catherine was tutored by modernist painter Allen Barker at Central St Martins College of Art and Design. She has been a member of dot-art since 2012. Catherine has exhibited in Chester, Manchester and Wales and creates private commissions.

Each piece is an illustrative portrait. Inspiration is taken from friends, family and the faces of women I see daily. I use the symbolic language of flowers, birds and butterflies in my work to convey ideas of everlasting beauty and evoke feelings of sensuality, love, tenderness, freedom and joy. The transformation of the ordinary into the extraordinary. I weave in totems that represent my personal experience, significant repeating designs.

Within many myths birds and butterflies appear to convey messages of hope to dissolve old forms leading to growth and renewal. Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years with floriography practiced in cultures throughout Europe, Asia and Africa. My portraits are imbued with rich symbolism containing loving messages of hope and transmutation.

Once upon a time when women were birds, there was a simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through joy` (Terry Tempest Williams)