Alan Evans obituary

Blacksmith at the forefront of a generation exploring new techniques to renew the craft as a contemporary art formIt was the curves and intersections of the stone ceiling of the crypt in St Paul’s Cathedral that provided the inspiration for the gates forged for the crypt’s Treasury by the artist blacksmith Alan Evans, who has died aged 70, of pancreatic cancer.Alan entered and won a design competition for the gates in 1980, early in his career. The outcome was a large pair of steel c