Vivid Colors and Composition bring Art to Life

Posted on June 8, 2008
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She favors painting subjects that have an underlying personal symbolism.

Like her award-winning equine acrylics.

Meet Eve Werner, Truckee acrylic and multi-media painter.

The Equine Images series is an exploration of an animal that has fascinated Eve since her childhood. “I consider horses to be the most beautiful of species. Their sensual movement and natural elegance, the way light plays against their curves, and their recurring appearance in myths world wide make them irresistible to me.

For this series, I extract images from photographs that I take then play with composition, color, and values to heighten the emotional impact while welcoming subconscious input on femininity, sensuality, wildness, and freedom.” says Werner.

In addition to her fascinating equine paintings, Eve has mastered the subtle nuances of Beach Play and California’s arbor scenes. She is also 1/3 of the Party of 3 that includes Truckee artists Carole Sesko and Sara Zimmerman.

Artist’s Statement:

Eve Werner is an award-winning acrylic and multi-media painter whose work explores natural subjects that have personal significance. She is known for her vivid use of color and values in expressively painted figurative work.

“Although my pieces begin with planning and forethought, they really come to life as paint, colors, and values interact. Acrylic paints allow me to work quickly, building several layers in each session. This continuity encourages the interplay between opposites - conscious/subconscious, planned/spontaneous, physical/emotional and real/abstract - that gives the final piece its drama.”

Werner is influenced by a variety of modernist and expressive artists, including the Bay Area Society of Six. Werner has studied painting in the Lake Tahoe and Mendocino coast areas of California since 1995, favoring subjects with underlying personal symbolism. When not painting, Werner relishes life in the Sierra Nevada with her family and practices landscape architecture. Her art is found in private collections throughout the United States.