Evan Church

EVAN CHURCH

Evan Church was born in San Francisco, California in 1971.  At age three he moved with his parents and brother to a mission station in Rhodesia, Southern Africa.  Evan spent his secondary school years in Kenya at Rift Valley Academy and studied art in Michigan at Spring Arbor University.  After graduating in 1994, he left the United States to serve as the director of an orphanage for children displaced by conflict in Rwanda.  Other relief and development projects have taken him to South Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Malawi, along with personal travels through much of Eastern, Southern, and Central Africa.  

Evan’s primary focus is painting the day to day life of people in Africa.  He is currently working on a series of watercolors and oils inspired by several months of travel and experience along East Africa’s Swahili Coast.  He recently moved to Saint Louis and divides his time between artwork and relief/development projects.

Evan’s work has been shown in Nairobi, Detroit, Chicago, and New York.