Phoebe Evans introduces the viewer to a sublime and liminal space, depicting architectural dreamscapes carefully delineated by infinite shades of a monochrome. Ranging from pastel pinks and yellows, to dark blues and bright oranges, Evans draws on magic realism to explore perspective through harmonising colours. The domestic environments portrayed in her canvases, become an aesthetic ideal.

Through her practice, Evans merges the past, present and a future that never arrives. Her canvases become timeless representations of an urbanistic ideal, which blend together personal experience and collective memory. The artist grants us access to a private space that we somehow recognise, and now observe through a tinted lens. These fragments of long corridors, dark staircases and carefully constructed windows, trigger a sense of nostalgia, reminding us of times gone by and lost memories; eery scenes of domesticity create a feeling of longing and a surreal sensation of odd familiarity. Homes we have never entered become portals to the fading facade of both the artist’s and audience’s memory, captured in a static moment that stills the flux of change.