About Evans Deventer
Nicholas Evans (b. 1982) is an American, Paris-based artist, designer and creative director. Painting is a cornerstone of Evans’ artistic expression, which is largely inspired by personal events, religious symbolism, and historical allegories. In addition to traditional oil and acrylics, Evans uses materials such as plasters, wax, salt and found objects in his works, presenting a way to seek new meaning in elements that have collapsed or eroded over time. Threads of poetry convey the fragmented logic of suffering, lost love and redemption that push him to create. After ...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Holy Split I Mixed Media Original Painting on Canvas, Abstract Landscape, 2026
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
HOLY SPLIT I
2026
Paris, France
HOLY SPLIT I is an ethereal mixed medium painting on canvas depicting a surreal dreamlike rift in a serene landscape. Abstract fuchsia forms suggesti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Pencil
Holy Split II Mixed Media Painting on Canvas, Abstract Landscape, 2026
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
HOLY SPLIT II
2026
Paris, France
HOLY SPLIT II is an ethereal mixed medium painting on canvas depicting a surreal dreamlike rift in a serene landscape. Abstract fuchsia forms sugges...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Pencil
"Many For The Empath" (abstract, flora, fauna, roses, oil painting, green, pink)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
MANY FOR THE EMPATH
2026
Paris, France
This complex and layered floral painting of an abundant, overflowing bouquet presents an energetic and mesmerizing subject. This original mixe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Dye, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Oil, Acrylic
"At The Very Least" (original abstract, flora, flowers, fauna, green, pink, red)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
AT THE VERY LEAST
2026
Paris, France
This vibrant and immersive floral painting, captures an expansive, almost overgrown garden expanse of blooming roses enveloped in dense, swirlin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Oil
"Straights" (Flora, Original Floral Contemporary Painting, Flowers, Dark, Black)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
Straights
2025
Paris, France
This abstract oil painting depicts delicate botanical forms rising on slender stems against a deep black background. Natural and beige tones define the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"From the Inside" (Contemporary, Abstract, Original, Dark, Textured, Black)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
From The Inside
2025
Paris, France
This abstract oil painting features a textured surface with deep black tones and natural cracks spreading across the canvas. The fissures expose a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Rosettes III" (animalia, fauna, original abstract painting, bold, natural)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
"Rosettes III" is a graphic and bold abstract painting, of terracotta oil paint on canvas. The name pays homage to the captivating "rosettes," the distinctive and natural markings fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Luctor Et Emerge" (Flora, Original, Contemporary, Floral, Flowers, Dark, Black)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
Luctor Et Emerge
2025
Paris, France
This abstract oil painting features delicate white blossoms scattered across cracked natural linen branches against a semi gloss deep black backg...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Acrylic
"It Trails You" (contemporary, original painting, pattern, abstract, bold)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
IT TRAILS YOU
2025
Paris, France
This bold abstract oil painting on natural linen canvas uses a single deep dark green-blue color applied in thick, fluid layers. The paint creates l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"All Fours" (Animalia, Fauna, Contemporary, Original, Nude Figures, Raw, Horses)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
ALL FOURS
2025
Paris, France
The painting shows four men on hands and knees in the foreground, their bodies merging in muted white and black tones against a plain ochre-brown backgr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Dye, Cotton Canvas, Oil
"Rosa Pristina" (contemporary, original, abstract, floral, pink flora, natural)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
ROSA PRISTINA Latin for "earliest rose" or "pristine rose," captures a bloom suspended forever between full vitality and delicate decay. The painting is an abstract elegy to the rose...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Dye, Oil, Plaster, Cotton Canvas
"Practice On Me" (Contemporary, Sensual, Feminine, Women, Figure Painting, Wood)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
"PRACTICE ON ME"
2025
Paris, France
“Practice on Me” is a study of intimacy and surrender, a reflection on the vulnerability that exists between devotion and desire.
Two figures, t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Acrylic
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