JAMIE EVRARD
Born in Milwaukee,Wisconsin in 1949, Jamie Evrard received a Bachelor of Arts Magna cum Laude from Brown University, Rhode Island, and a Masters of Art and Masters in Fine Art 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 taught drawing at the University of Iowa and printmaking at the University of British Columbia.
Painting since the mid 1970s, Jamie Evrard is an extremely versatile painter well known for the richness of her monotypes, her bold and exuberant oils on canvas, her delicate watercolours and her fine works on copper.
In late fall, winter and early spring, she makes her monotypes. Collecting oriental paper in her world travels, she first paints directly onto the paper and then uses metallic powders to further decorate the paper on which she will later print. After creating an image on a plate, each piece of paper is then hand pressed many, many times, creating a diffused image, much like a faded old fresco. These separate pieces of oriental paper are then mounted on a backing, creating a sort of textile or mosaic.
In the spring, Evrard begins to find the blank canvases lying around her studio very attractive and feels the pull of the creamy quality of oil paint and a more direct way of working. Both her oils and monotypes continue to 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. Tuscany is also most often the place where Evrard works in watercolour to paint the readily available fruits and vegetables of the Tuscan countryside. The resulting work is at once approachable, warm and elegant.
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