Paula Evers Art

Paula Evers was born in Bergen, province of North-Holland in the Netherlands in 1942. Bergen is famous for its artist colony - the Bergen School. Evers studied with the Dutch painter Peter Schenk at the Van Gogh Academy in Amsterdam. Evers is an intuitive painter who works and reworks her feelings. Her paintings create themselves while the work progresses. She has all the technical skills necessary to make painting a meditative process. Evers’ paintings are a manifestation in colour. The autumn in particular inspires her with the many and multi-varied colour characteristics of this season. She expresses her love of the warm earthy colours and natural tones in her passionate use of paint on canvas. Her paintings are figurative as well as abstract. She defines her work as lyrical. The term lyrical is the direct expression of an emotional state of being. The figures Evers paints are without facial features. Their contours merely suggest their presence. Their abstract surroundings are an undefined space enveloping them. Interpersonal narratives with which viewers can identify are characteristic of her work. Her paintings are accessible and therefore greatly appeal to almost everyone confronted with her work. For her abstract paintings, Evers mainly uses materials that give her work a distinct skin as it were. The paint that she next applies to this surface emphasizes the shapes of this material and guides the final composition. Her paintings draw you into their space, so that you can wander around in them infinitely.