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White: A Season in the Life of John Borden Evans is a quiet meditation on place, memory, and the rhythms that shape a life well-lived. Set in rural Virginia, the film draws us into the world of painter John Borden Evans and his wife, Beth Neville, who have spent more than three decades in an old farmhouse passed down through Beth’s family. This isn’t just the backdrop to their lives — it’s the center of their story.

The house, with its drafty winters and lived-in warmth, is as much a character as the people who inhabit it. Here, their children were born. Here, they share meals, split wood, tend the stove. And here, John paints — quietly, deliberately, season after season — finding in the bare winter branches and shifting light the geometry of meaning. White, for him, is not purity or absence but texture, resistance, a surface to be worked and revealed.

Beth, once a clothier and set designer, now sings in the church choir she directs. She speaks of sewing jackets with the precision of architecture — each line and seam needing to fall just so — a philosophy not far from John’s approach to his canvases. Together, they live a life shaped by faith, labor, and care, in which art is not separate from the everyday but deeply rooted in it.

White is not a film about painting, per se. It’s about time — how it settles in a place, how it moves through a marriage, how it’s marked on canvas, and in the creak of a floorboard, and in the snow that quietly returns each year.

White: John Borden Evans, is an exquisite portrait of a working artist that manages to capture the quiet and the quotidian elements of John Borden Evans' life in the Virginia countryside, without in any way diminishing the majestic imagination that makes him one of the South's preeminent painters. Montes-Bradley's storytelling permeates every element of his craft, but it's his understanding of people that set his documentaries apart." - Giles Morris