Rose Evenson

This painting is a landscape of where I live.  When my family comes home to visit, one of their favorite activities is to go for a walk in these hills.   18×24

Glacial Hills

My inspiration for this painting came to me after visiting Claude Monet’s flower garden in France. These Water Lilies were painted partially in an abstract manner, using negative painting to give you the feeling of water or luminosity (24 x 36).

Water Lilies

The Bananas, Pears and Shadows painting was created for the National Small Works Juried Exhibition 1998 show, which was named “Realism in Detail” in St. Cloud, Minnesota.  Size 16×20.

Bananas, Pears and Shadows

Pink maple leaves done with ink. This effect was created by utilizing maple leaves as a resist against yupo paper. In it’s original size it is 12×18.

Pink Leaves

This picture was taken at the school where I volunteer.

Our Grandma Rose

Lady slippers are notorious for being the state flower of Minnesota. I was lucky enough to have a friend of mine direct me to a location where they were growing in the wild. I wanted to do a large painting 22×26, for people to enjoy the size and beauty of this magnificent flower! I created these paintings at two completely different times in my art career. Can you guess which one is the most recent creation?

Lady Slippers 1

Lady Slippers 2

I chose to utilize a variety of colors to demonstrate the diversity within the Petunia family.

Petunia Flowers

I was inspired to paint Hollyhocks on a large scale (22 x 34) that were growing outside my living room window.

Hollyhock Plant From My Window

This was a challenge for me to capture the volume and depth of a subject matter that is absent of color, such as white begonias, which are featured here. (22 x 34)

White Begonias Upclose

My grandmother’s favorite flower bursting into spring.

Magical Pink Iris

Dreaming of Apples in the middle of a winter wonderland.

Apple Blossom Time

A glimpse of a hummingbird captured flying by garden hibiscus.

Hummingbird In Paradise

This was the first painting where I challenged myself by adding an inanimate object (a red wing antique water pitcher) to my work.

An Apple A Day

A desert landscape depicted in a technique that varies from my more traditional water color style.

Desert Aglow

An experiment with ink, capturing natures splendor in a unique and exciting way.