Dick McEvoy Bio

Dick McEvoy was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and lived most of his formative years in Duxbury, Massachusetts.  He paints impressionist landscapes in pastel and oil, and abstract expressionist oil paintings with palette knife.

Dick McEvoy is a Signature Artist and Board Member of the Pastel Society of America, and he has recently completed a 7 year term as President of the Connecticut Pastel Society.  Dick has exhibited in Normandy and Giverny, France, Florence, Italy and in Taipei, Taiwan, along with numerous sites throughout the United States:  Pastel Society of America, Connecticut Pastel Society, Audubon Artists, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, and many other regional shows.
His work is in over 170 private and corporate collections.  Dick’s artwork has been included in recent publications such as Pure Color/Best in Pastel, Art du Pastel en France, and the Pastel Journal.

I love the immediacy of pastels…of having pure pigment that flows like a natural extension of my hand; and I try to show the viewer what I see and how I feel…what I find moving.  It doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to move from my pastel landscapes painted in an impressionistic style, to oil “landscapes” painted in an abstract expressionistic style.

With images of landscapes I’ve seen in person dancing in my mind, I paint with palette knives and let the energies, emotions and passions flow.  They are pretty much an expression of my subconscious as I try to communicate what moves me.  I use a combination of color, stroke, shape and overall activity to express my sensibilities about a particular place.

I strive to capture life, as I feel it, within my paintings.  My abstract work helps to open a window into the subconscious mind, and into my personal perceptions as they continue to develop.  Most paintings are transformations of my memories and feelings of landscapes that I’ve seen, painted or imagined.

Attending Brown University as an undergraduate, he majored in Psychology and took courses at the Rhode Island School of Design.  While at Wharton Business School (MBA), he studied  art with Violette De Mazia at The Barnes Foundation.