Tony Bevan RA (born 1951) is a British painter, known for his psychologically charged images of people at the edge of respectable society.
This resulted in over 80 images which were subsequently shown at Marlborough Fine Art in London, and marked the beginning of an interest in printmaking Bevan retains to this day.
[7] What this meant in practical terms was that Bevan produced psychologically charged images of people at the edge of respectable society, in a style that drew influence from sources ranging from early twentieth century New Objectivity artists, to Frances Bacon and the painters of the School of London, and the ephemera of street graffiti and popular culture.
[9] Although this handling has led some critics to associate Bevan with the School of London,[10] this connection has been disputed, most notably by Grace Glueck in The New York Times.
'[12] As with the Scottish artists Campbell, Currie and Howson, there is a clear interest in attempting to represent an internal or psychological reality in Bevan's paintings by finding visual equivalents to a subject's state of mind.
Indeed, this is a quality Bevan himself notes, admitting that he was heavily influenced as a student by a book called Psychoanalytic Approaches to Art (unidentified).