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Nicholas Evans (10 January 1907 – 5 February 2004) was a self-taught 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. ==Early life== Evans was born in 1907 in Aberdare, Wales. He began work at the age of 13 as a miner, but this lasted only for three years until his father's death in an accident at the Fforchaman Colliery, near Aberdare, in 1923. Evans was deeply affected by the death, his father’s body having been returned to the family home that same evening to be laid overnight on the kitchen table.〔''Nicholas Evans - Pilgrim & Painter'' - All Things Considered, BBC Radio Wales, broadcast June 2010 and 5 February 2011〕 At his mother's insistence, he left the pits and became a railwayman, eventually finding a job as a train engine driver for the Great Western Railway attached to the coal industry in the Cynon Valley. Evans' ability to draw was discovered by one of his primary school teachers, who gave him a new pencil and encouraged him to sketch. He stopped after a while, however, as he could not afford to buy paper.〔(Nicholas Evans - Painter specialising in coal-mines and miners, Obituary at The Independent )〕 He married Annie "Maud" Lambert (d. 1997) in 1928. They had two sons, Victor and Peter, and one daughter, Rhoda,〔 as well as two grandchildren - Peter J Evans and Nick Evans. Evans was a prolific artist and much of his work remains, un-photographed and un-catalogued, in the custody of his two sons, in a secure storeroom. It has been estimated that, of Evans' entire output, only five percent is currently on public display.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Evans (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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