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Evelyn Jenkins Drew

The subjects that most inspire my creativity are local and tropical landscapes, animals, and flowers. Because I am in Capitola almost daily the beauty and personality of the village have had a major influence on my art. Four times I have won the Capitola Begonia Festival poster, twice with paintings on silk and twice with watercolors. One silk painting had a huge white begonia shaped cumulus cloud and one had a begonia in the white water of a wave.
Photo Credit Debra Dolsberry

The two other posters are watercolors of Capitola Village with potted begonias in the foreground. I often paint a strong foreground with large flowers or animals and a landscape in the background. You can see that my style is quite realistic and frequently I work from several photos and live flowers to acheive one painting.

I paint with dyes on silk and watercolors. Over the years of alternating the two mediums I have been able to apply lessons learned in each medium to the other. My silk painting style is pictoral and looks more like watercolors than most silk painting styles. Some of my silk paintings have appeared in national magazines such as Threads and Surface Design and three are in Susan Moyer's latest book, Silk Painting for Fashion and Fine Art.

I have had the good fortune to have art on covers for the book publisher Crossing Press, a cover of Prelude Magazine out of Monterey, and labels for Devlin Winery in Soquel, California. I teach silk painting and do demonstrations for the manufacturers of Jacquard Dyes. You can see my greeting cards in Capitola at the Craft Gallery and at the Capitola Book Cafe.

Fifth generation California artist.

Graduate of San Jose State University, bachelor's degree in art.

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