Series I 0026 - 2013 - Evelyn Dunphy
Colour in Your Life featured artist Evelyn Dunphy appeared on Colour In Your Life Season Twenty (20)
Read a little bit about the artist here, and support our site by joining and watching the episode below.
Evelyn Dunphy made art of many kinds throughout her life, including a commission for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Painting was always the thing she was "going to do one day". Finally, Evelyn took the plunge into watercolour, and from that day onward, she has been passionate about the medium. She remembers feeling anxious that “I had waited too long, there will not be enough time to learn everything I want to know. One day I heard just as clear as a bell, 'you have all the time you need'". She has never looked back. In fact, this has turned out to be a wonderful asset, especially for her students. It can be a life-changing moment for people to realise that it is never too late to start, and to succeed.
Evelyn Dunphy has traveled far and wide. She painted the breathtaking mountains and countryside of Japan and climbed Mt. Fuji, traveled through the bush country and Victoria Falls in Livingstone, Zambia, painted in the American Southwest and visited Europe, India and Sri Lanka where she climbed Sirigiya and visited the famed hilltop city of Kandy, the last capital of the ancient kings' era of Sri Lanka.
Sailing on a freighter up the coast of Labrador to the northernmost settlement of Nain, painting every day on the ship as they went in and out of the many small outports was one of Evelyn Dunphy's favorite trips. In Newfoundland’s Gros Morne World Heritage Site she took a boat into the fjord where cliffs tower 2500 feet, black bears fish from the shore, and hiked over the tablelands.
Evelyn Dunphy has become known for her passion for preserving wilderness areas of Maine. “During the campaign to save Katahdin Lake from development, a friend commented that using my work in this way was the finest kind of activism. That was my first personal experience of knowing that one person really can make a difference”.
Evelyn Dunphy is recognized in Maine for her paintings of Mount Katahdin and being the first visiting artist in the history of Baxter State Park, a 200,000+ acre wilderness sanctuary.
She is the first artist to receive the National Resource Council of Maine’s People’s Choice Award for her contribution to conservation in the state.
You can contact Evelyn about her art tips or art techniques directly via her website at evelyndunphy.com
Read a little bit about the artist here, and support our site by joining and watching the episode below.
Evelyn Dunphy made art of many kinds throughout her life, including a commission for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Painting was always the thing she was "going to do one day". Finally, Evelyn took the plunge into watercolour, and from that day onward, she has been passionate about the medium. She remembers feeling anxious that “I had waited too long, there will not be enough time to learn everything I want to know. One day I heard just as clear as a bell, 'you have all the time you need'". She has never looked back. In fact, this has turned out to be a wonderful asset, especially for her students. It can be a life-changing moment for people to realise that it is never too late to start, and to succeed.
Evelyn Dunphy has traveled far and wide. She painted the breathtaking mountains and countryside of Japan and climbed Mt. Fuji, traveled through the bush country and Victoria Falls in Livingstone, Zambia, painted in the American Southwest and visited Europe, India and Sri Lanka where she climbed Sirigiya and visited the famed hilltop city of Kandy, the last capital of the ancient kings' era of Sri Lanka.
Sailing on a freighter up the coast of Labrador to the northernmost settlement of Nain, painting every day on the ship as they went in and out of the many small outports was one of Evelyn Dunphy's favorite trips. In Newfoundland’s Gros Morne World Heritage Site she took a boat into the fjord where cliffs tower 2500 feet, black bears fish from the shore, and hiked over the tablelands.
Evelyn Dunphy has become known for her passion for preserving wilderness areas of Maine. “During the campaign to save Katahdin Lake from development, a friend commented that using my work in this way was the finest kind of activism. That was my first personal experience of knowing that one person really can make a difference”.
Evelyn Dunphy is recognized in Maine for her paintings of Mount Katahdin and being the first visiting artist in the history of Baxter State Park, a 200,000+ acre wilderness sanctuary.
She is the first artist to receive the National Resource Council of Maine’s People’s Choice Award for her contribution to conservation in the state.
You can contact Evelyn about her art tips or art techniques directly via her website at evelyndunphy.com
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