Toward the mid-1990s Bevan continued to express sentiments of bleakness and isolation that he had first treated in his paintings of disembodied body parts, but now with an exterior bent as he focussed on architectural themes.
Violet Interior employs similar tropes to Rafters in Bevan's use of raw pigment, a practice similar to the one he commenced early in his career, where he used charcoal and acrylic paint, which speaks to the unrefined and harsh nature of the atmosphere created.