Musician and artist Carl Bevan has died at the age of 51, his partner has announced on social media.

The 51-year-old rose to fame as the drummer of the 1990s punk rock band 60ft Dolls.

The trio supported bands Oasis and the Sex Pistols and played Glastonbury before splitting in 1998.

Bevan, who was from Glynneath, Neath Port Talbot, but grew up in Newport, returned to the public eye as a landscape artist in 2018 after quitting music.

Bevan’s partner, Bev, confirmed the “devastating” news on Bevan’s Facebook page.

Bevan, who was inspired to take up music by his father Ray, is survived by his daughter Connie.

He was a teenager when the 60ft Dolls burst on to the scene in the 1990s and admitted he had a reputation as a party animal.

“There was a lot of gigs, a lot of laughter and stuff got broken and brain cells sacrificed in the name of rock’n’roll,” he told the BBC in 2020.

The 60ft Dolls were part of what was dubbed “Cool Cymru” in the 1990s, along with Manic Street Preachers, Super Furry Animals, Catatonia and Stereophonics.

They shared bills with the Foo Fighters and Iggy Pop and played festivals including Reading, T in the Park, and Glastonbury.

After what he described as a misspent youth making music and memories with two mates Richard Parfitt and Mike Cole in the band, the musician mellowed and his most recent work was making landscape paintings.

“Painting has been amazing for my sanity, especially in lockdown,” Bevan recalled in 2020.

He started painting scenes from pictures taken while on walks with his beloved cavapoo dog Billy in a makeshift studio in his house in Cardiff before moving into a permanent space at Bridge Studios in the Fairwater area of the city.