Tony Bevan, R.A. (b. 1951)

'Since the mid-1990s Bevan has taken increasing advantage of his recognition factor to push his art to abstraction, investigating the lengths to which he can subject his representations of heads to brutal deformation or extreme simplification while at all time maintaining the legibility of the image and the viewer’s emotive and visceral identification with it' (see M. Livingstone, ‘The Spirit Beneath the Skin’, in M. Hue-Williams, Tony Bevan, London and LA ,1998, pp. 10-11).