Melvyn Evans

I think I have always had a love for art, my mother is an artist and as a family we grew up surrounded by pictures. She always had lots of art materials around so it was natural for us as children to copy Mum and draw and paint. I used to wonder why, if we went to a friend’s house and we wanted to draw, we were given a scrap of lined paper and a biro. Consequently, we all ended up in creative professions. My younger brother lives in Paris and is a wood engraver and illustrator, he now works there as a designer, having trained at the Royal College of Art. My sister is a jeweller. She travels back and forth to New York, and teaches courses at West Dean, and my twin brother etches and draws but professionally he designs nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers for the Navy. My father was an engineer with the Navy and we were always involved in family projects restoring old boats, houses and cars. I learnt a lot of skills from him and many of these I have been able to transfer into the printmaking process.