Tony Bevan made his first paintings of interiors in 1987, when he made a series of 'Corridor Paintings' on small canvases. Eight years later he revived the theme, this time working on a much larger scale. Bevan's later interiors typically comprise a single colour - red, orange, cobalt blue or violet, occasionally black - against a white ground. The scale of the paintings necessitates that he work on unstretched canvases on the floor of his studio. He hand-mixes his own paint, applying it thickly, using brushes which have been cut off into stumps. Debris from snapped off bits of charcoal, shadows of earlier drawings, and scuffs from where he has moved around on top of the canvas, remain evident in the surface of the finished paintings.

Bevan's paintings of interiors do not necessarily seek to describe one specific place. They might more accurately be described as a confabulation of spaces, remembered, imagined and historical. His images of gloomy corridors, weighty ceilings and cavernous chambers are less portraits of places, than manifestations of (his own) psychological states. His interiors suggest feelings of containment, isolation, physical pressure, perceptual distortion and release. By refining, and working repeatedly with, a small range of architectural motifs, Bevan has developed a parallel body of work as powerfully expressive as his portraits.