Jake Wood-Evans

Jake Wood-Evans is a devotee of 18th-century art, and as such, his works have been significantly influenced by the great masters of the golden age of British painting. Taking influence from the work of J.M.W Turner among others, Wood-Evans’s paintings retain recognisable elements that allude to the conventions of art history.

Drawing on these masters’ legacies, his intention is to capture the essence of these historic works without replicating them, depicting familiar yet obscured subject matter. Through first creating, then scrubbing away, reworking, and removing sections of a scene, the artist reveals ghostly infrastructures that preserve the warmth and glow of the original painting.