Cynthia Bevan is a French/American artist engraver. Originally from Los Angeles, she has lived in the Paris region for three decades. Her love of drawing and art in all its forms dates back to her earliest years, fed by art workshops and frequent visits to Los Angeles’ Norton Simon, LACMA and the Getty. As her world expanded, so did her appreciation for museums—in New York, Washington DC, but also London, Madrid, Paris—as did her appetence for sketching and painting. A major turning point was her introduction to the techniques of engraving, and particularly relief printing on lino, under the guidance of internationally acclaimed Catherine Gillet.
Her works capture the poetic je ne sais quoi of French culture in the simplest of moments: a young woman daydreaming as she gazes out over the Paris rooftops, an old man reading in his favorite Parisian café, a woman in her Haussmann-style apartment with a good book, a roaring fire, and a cat curled at her feet.
She has been exhibited in galleries in the United States, France and Japan.
