JAKE BEVAN bevan_jake@yahoo.co.uk
‘Raymond’ 59x69 cm Oil on Canvas
Jake Bevan is an artist who explores the concept of existence through memories and identity. After a person dies their existence remains through people that knew them or knew of them, but once they forget, that person becomes just another face in a photograph, or another name on a list. Unless you leave a legacy beyond your family the likelihood of your name and face being of any significance to anyone else is unlikely. Using passport photographs as source material for paintings, the personal marks, occasional mistakes and consumption of the artist’s time contrast against the strictly regulated photos, which are printed by a machine almost instantaneously. The artist is interested in the comparison of the length of time it takes to capture a photograph, against the indefinite period of time it takes to finish a painting, and the relationship they both hold with the subject they capture, especially as that person ages.