Artists and Artwork

Of Tuscany XIII Through Vineyards (1 of 2)
Jamie Evrard
Watercolour
22.25 x 30 in.
Value: $700.00
Rental per month: $14.00

Born in Wisconsin, Jamie Evrard received a BA in Art and Anthropology, Magna cum Laude, from Brown University, Rhode Island, and an MA and MFA in studio art with a concentration in printmaking from the University of Iowa. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Andrews Scholar, Brown University, the Ford Foundation Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Art, University of Iowa and an Explorations Grant from the Canada Council. She has also taught drawing at the University of Iowa, and printmaking at the University of British Columbia.

Evrard creates rich still life and floral paintings using oil paint, monotype and watercolours that reflect her environment, not only the lushness of the garden that surrounds her Vancouver studio, but also the richness of Tuscany where she works for several months each year.

Evrard says of her work: "What most intrigues me as subject matter for my paintings are the most ordinary things; still life objects that I see around the house day after day but which resonate for me in their familiarity, and rather unremarkable landscapes in which I can find a particular quiet, understated beauty and mystery. I paint in order to see what it is I am looking at. Making art is a way of taking possession, a way of finding out how things really are, or perhaps of making them as I would like them to be. If a few days go by without my having drawn or painted, I become completely impossible."

Her work is included in collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, Vancouver Art Gallery, Seattle Arts Commission Public Works Collection, Government of BC, Ministry of Culture Art Collection, Burnaby Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Simon Fraser University, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria, and The Claridge Collection, Montreal.