Nicholas Evans (artist)

Nicholas Evans was a selftaught Welsh artist from Aberdare, in the Cynon Valley. He was known best in the art world as Nick Evans, with which name his work was signed.

Evans was born in 1907 in Aberdare, Wales. He began work at the age ofas a miner, but this lasted only for three years until his fathers death in an accident at the Fforchaman Colliery, near Aberdare, in 1923. Evans was deeply affected by the death, his fathers body having been returned to the family home that same evening to be laid overnight on the kitchen table.

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