Asymmetric Yellow - Solo Art Exhibition Oct 31st to Nov 5th at 5th Base gallery in Heneage St,

[madasahat]

This is the first gallery showing by a young artist I met last year. I was lucky enough to attend Jamie Evans? final degree show in London where I purchased my first ever major piece of artwork. (This is now hanging in my lounge). His work uses a number of different media and ranges from large scale canvasses to smaller drawings. I'd highly recommend you to attend the private opening of his exhibition.

"Asymmetric Yellow is the debut solo exhibition of up-and-coming painter Jamie Evans, based in Newcastle Upon-Tyne, whose work blends a graffiti-inspired aesthetic with fine art technique. Evans, 24, from Ashington, Northumberland initially developed his skills on the streets of the North East, before turning his attention to the canvas as his appreciation of the wider art world grew. Asymmetric Yellow - a reference to his ongoing quest to balance two seemingly opposing forces - will run at 5th Base gallery in Heneage St, London, from October 31st to November 5th.

"The ideology behind my work comes from my background in graffiti, I consider myself a participant in shaping the world around me, not a spectator; However, the methods I employ are very traditional - carefully priming canvases the correct way, making my own oil paint from pigment, taking care to source the best possible quality materials available to me. I?ll then mix that together with spray paint in ways that create something uniquely new with great vibrancy. Graffiti taught me that things don?t last forever, but in my art I?m looking for longevity - so again, it?s a matter of bringing together those forces that don?t necessarily sit side by side. Some see graffiti and fine art as things that can?t be merged, but the show represents the culmination of my efforts to join two elements of art that I have an equal love for."

Since graduating from a BA in fine art at Newcastle University in 2015, Jamie has exhibited in shows in Newcastle and Bremen, Germany. And recently, he was commissioned by Rocnation to spray paint a piano for singer Emeli Sand? as she prepares to go tour.

?I see my art as positivity - positive vibration - and when I look at a blank canvas or a wall outside, I?m inspired to turn what I see in my mind into a physical reality. Painting is very intuitive to me. I don?t think too much about it, it just comes out fluently.?

Jamie, who works seven days a week in his studio at Bamburgh House, Newcastle, has been supported by patron, Dean Coyle, whose generosity has funded the solo show.

Asymmetric Yellow will open on the 31st October at 06.30PM.