Boyd & Evans Untitled, 1989

Fionnuala Boyd and Les Evans' (b. 1944/45) longstanding artistic collaboration began in 1968 and was celebrated with an extensive exhibition of Boyd & Evans: High Time at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 2023.

With a creative career that spans over four decades, Boyd & Evans' work has been through many noteworthy changes to subject, influence, and execution. Encompassing media that include spray-painted acrylic and stencil through to brushes and oil. Their work ranges from early portrayals of British hinterlands and smaller extracts of urban areas to vast depictions of North America's Southwest.

The influence of photography has proved paramount in Boyd & Evans' painting practice. The 1990s saw a shift from their spray painting technique, which mainly explores interiors and familial relationships of people, to vast landscapes devoid of human presence.  This diversion from the subject of British life has seen them travel extensively on research trips from Borneo to the American Southwest, obtaining new source material for an ever-growing photographic library that feeds their painting. 

Selected solo exhibitions include Boyd and Evans 1970-75, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Leceister City Museum, Leicester; Wolverhampton City Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, 1979; A Decade of Paintings, Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery, Milton Keynes; Bede Gallery, Jarrow; City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent; Ferenes Art Gallery, Hull, 1982 and 1983; Hove Museum and Art Gallery, 1996; and Boyd & Evans: Views, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, 2012.