Artist on Display
Janice Bird Evans
Janice is often seen outside, ‘en plein air’ painting the natural wonders of the West Coast shorelines, mountains and forests. The 'plein air' experience has been vital for inspiring her paintings and inspires impressionistic and ethereal images from her loose free-flowing brush strokes that seem to dance across the paper. She has a Zen vibe to her beautiful, simple, but complex imagery.
Janice was born in Montreal, Quebec and started her formal art studies at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, School of Art and Design. She attended many different art venues with a cross section of art educators throughout her extensive travels as a military spouse, while raising a family and completing a BSc.
This past year Janice was honoured to be display a painting with the International Watercolour Society in Mexico City, at the Museo Nacional de la Acuarela, as one of a several Canadians showing in the XIV Bienal Internacional de la Acuarela. Her work can be found in a number of private collections.
Janice loves to get up early in the morning and head out to different locations on Vancouver Island, no matter what the weather, so stop by and say ‘hello’!