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Raised in Ohio, Evelia began drawing and
painting at an early age. At age 11, she was
awarded a scholarship to attend adult art
classes from the Dayton Art Institute. She
graduated from The American Academy of Art
in Chicago and embarked on a highly
successful commercial art career.
During her commercial art career, her work for
Antioch Publishing appeared on bookmarks,
journals and other related items. These
products were successfully sold nationally at
stores such as Barnes & Noble, WalMart, Target
and Borders, just to name a few. She
collaborated with Jim Davis, creator of the
Garfield comic strip, on licensed products
featuring Garfield and gained praise from
Lucas Films for her work on Star Wars licensed
journals and bookmarks helping Antioch
Publishing attain "preferred vendor" status.
At one time a bookmark she designed was
the best-selling bookmark of all-time at Barnes
and Noble.
After spending over twenty years in the
commercial art field, Evelia has decided to
once again focus on her love of painting
and drawing. Her influences are many.
Among them are early Chinese and
Japanese prints, Impressionism, Retro
illustrations of the 40's and 50's and the Arts
and Crafts/Prairie Style movements in
architecture and interior design. Most of
these styles are very organic and feature
natural elements and an appreciation of
nature as a central theme. These styles have
always resonated with her because of her
life-long love of nature. This love of nature has
taught her to be keenly observant of the
world around her, not only in nature itself, but
also observant to trends in color, design,
fashion and decorating.
Evelia's daily observations of the world
combined with her commercial art savvy
and passion for nature, help her create
contemporary compositions which highlight
the patterns found in nature. These
compositions create a very unique mood
which is meant to be harmonic, calming
and inspiring. "I try to combine light, shadow,
color, texture, patterns and forms commonly
found in nature that help transport the
viewer to a time and place, either real or
imaginary. My intent is to create artwork that
will inspire much greater awareness and
appreciation of nature and the world which
we live in. Now more than ever, we need to
appreciate what we have."
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