Artist Presentation

Artists Presentaion
Evelyn Jorgenson
Painting in Tuscany
August 21, 2025
1:00 am – 3:00 pm

After working with artists for decades and witnessing what appeared to be toxic exposure from art related materials, I began to research a topic that’s rarely discussed, toxic substances in paint and the handling of these materials from watercolor, oil and pastels.

As a representational painter, I’m attracted to the variety of formal possibilities in a motif; characteristics like the shapes of shadows or the colors of forms. I respond with playfulness, then objectivity, then moments of raw emotion, which often look like rescuing the effort with a unified simplification, or messing it up to give myself […]

Explanation and demonstration of the process of painting a flower from selection to completion. Pat believes “art is soul inspiration.” Her goal is to spark an emotion that causes one to move in and take a closer look. Painting mostly florals, animals, hearts and whimsical art using oil and acrylic.