Colourful, vibrant, surreal, devoid of intellectualism or dispositions to self-consciousness, Minnie Evans’ paintings and drawings spring directly from the world of the artist’s dreams. Day or night dreamlike visions are expressed in the works of this artist who identified God with nature, color with his divine presence and dreams with reality. The subjects of his works are, among others, ancient wise men, ancestral visitors, angels, demons, chimeric creatures, but the recurring central motif is a human face surrounded by a proliferation of butterflies, eyes, trees, plants and floral shapes in a heavenly bright coloured garden enclosed in a frame of curvilinear rhythms similar to a cartouche.
