Ric Evans’s Natural Momentum (1993) is an abstract painting that reflects the artist’s long commitment to geometric structure and colour as vehicles for visual expression. This oil on canvas measures 14.75 by 14.75 inches.

Evans (1946–2025), born in Toronto, was a leading Canadian abstract painter whose career spanned more than five decades. He studied at the Ontario College of Art in the late 1960s, emerging during a period of significant development in contemporary Canadian abstraction. Throughout the 1970s he participated in the artist-run movement, exhibiting with groups such as the Toronto Artists’ Cooperative and helping to found Mercer Union, an influential artist-run centre that shaped Canada’s contemporary art landscape. His work was shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Alberta College of Art, and his paintings are held in public and corporate collections across Canada.