Tommy Evans was born in Lubbock, Texas in 1969. There he graduated from Monterey High School in 1988 with honors.  He developed a deep love for drawing and painting fostered by his parents Bill and Anita Evans and his grandmother, Mary Fulton Evans.  Mary taught him to appreciate and create art. His parents’ love and devotion to him and his sister created opportunities for them to grow through the responsibilities of farm life and devotion to God. He developed a passion for horses and western lifestyle growing up in in the country just outside of Lubbock. Horse shows, play days, drill team, parades, rodeos and trail rides are how he spent his weekends and holidays with the Lubbock Rangers and the Abernathy Riding Clubs.  Showing horses and raising show steers and pigs through FFA he understands pride in hard work. In Scouts, he thrives on camping and outdoor adventure and earned scouting’s highest honor, the Eagle Scout Award in 1986.  He received his BFA in Printmaking in 1993 at Texas Tech University.  In 1995, he received his MFA in Studio Art from University of Oklahoma in Printmaking.  He later moved to Wichita Falls in 1996 where he operated National Fireworks, Inc. until 1998. From 1998 until 2001 he worked in the printing and advertising industry with Kwik Kopy  Printing, Kinkos, and Humphrey Printing companies where he developed pre-press, presswork, and vector graphic and digital layering /editing skills.

From 2001to 2018, he was the IB Visual Arts Teacher at Hirschi High School.  He teaches International Baccalaureate Diploma Visual Arts, MYP Visual Art, CTE courses: Digital Graphic Careers, Advertising, Web Publishing, Print and Media Technology, Animation.  From 2011 until current day he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Vernon College in Wichita Falls teaching Art Appreciation. From 2017 to 2019 he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Midwestern State University teaching Art Education and Art Appreciation. Since 2018, he is an Adjunct Professor at Cisco College teaching Art Appreciation.

Tommy is a working artist who shows locally, nationally and internationally. He is currently seeking a professorship in printmaking that will advance his research and printmaking prowess.

His artwork is reflective of the "bigger than life" and “quick on the trigger” philosophies often shared by native Texans. Lore and legend of the West are often his focus with an occasion sojourn into developing theory and practice through adjacent series. His compositions are richly layered and colorful with deliberate tensions and juxtapositions.  There are sometimes loosely autobiographical clues in the compositions that often tell stories both real and imagined.

Tommy is the husband of Cindy Brunette Evans.