Evelyn Jenkins-drew Art

Evelyn Jenkins Drew’s goal is to paint the beauty she sees around her and make it glow from within. Her art is about good times in gratifying places sometimes with aged cars such as Volkswagen buses and beautiful woodies. In her art, flowers exceed their natural size and attain a cherished presence within the viewer. Her most treasured compliments came 2 times when birds actually flew into a gallery to get to her flower paintings. She studied at San Jose State University in California, where she received a bachelors' degree in art in 1980. Tropical and local landscapes, flowers, and animals are some of the subjects that most inspire her creative processes. She’s a 5th generation California artist known for painting colorful and bright scenes with palms, banana trees and turquoise water that evoke the warmth of the tropical breezes of California, the Caribbean, Mexico and Hawaii. She has won the Capitola Begonia Festival poster 4 times, two times with paintings on silk and two times with watercolors. In 2011 the artist had an exhibit in Oxnard, CA at the Murphy Auto Museum. She licenses art for cards, posters, wine labels, and metal signs, etc. her art has appeared in national magazines such as the cover of Prelude Magazine, Threads and Surface Design, wine labels, catalog covers, and Silk Painting for Fashion and Fine Art, Susan Moyer's latest book. She paints mainly on silk twill and China silk with Jacquard dyes, and her art is mainly distributed as framed Evelyn Jenkins art. She teaches in her studio and participates in Open Studio Tour each October.