Evie is a Visual Artist who has mainly works in mixed media.
She has worked in residential aged care and with older people living in the community and as a facilitator of art workshops for adults living with dementia and those without this challenge.
Currently she works in a primary school where she works with 5-9 year old students with learning challenges. She continues her daily art practice as well as conducting art workshops for beginners and those people who want to tap into their latent creativity.
In 1995, while living in Sydney, she began Art studies at the Bondi Road Art School. These classes ignited her enthusiasm for the visual arts and she is indebted to her inspiring tutors at Bondi for guiding her into the world of art.
Her art practice has been an avenue for to express spirituality, creativity and humanity.
Evie works intuitively with textures and mixed media. She has realized the potential of art to emotionally heal the human soul and to promote spiritual growth in the art practitioner and in those people who view the artwork.
In her workshops she creates a space for participants to express themselves without fear of judgment and encourages participants to reveal their inner landscape using a variety of media.
From 2015 she created knitted and crocheted wearable art e.g ponchos, embroidered items and cloth dolls as well as developing her photography and mixed media art practice.
In 2019 -2021 she continues to attend short at ACSA and revels in what she is learning . She joined The Mill in February 2019 and has continues her develop her art practice there.
In 2019 -2021 she worked on an exhibition for SALA 2020 called Xenitia . Xenitia is a Greek word meaning exile and the exhibition explores the theme of migration of children and their families and centres around Evie’s experience of migrating to Australia when she was 6 years old in 1964. The exhibition included an installation of handmade dolls, film and mixed media artworks.