ARTIST STATEMENT

"My main medium is watercolor. I work in a realistic manner, starting with a real subject matter and a drawing, then moving towards the abstract and mysterious. I start working with the paper very wet, adding layers of paint as the paper dries. I am open to accidents and surprises, enjoying the lack of control involved in working this way. I usually paint "on the spot", at home or outside, finishing the work almost entirely in one sitting. I am "self taught", which to me means without much formal art school training. I have learned from my mother, from growing up in a very art and design oriented society. I have learned from other artists, from my children, from everything around me, Art is what I do. I can't imagine not drawing and painting. It gives me a language, a way to express what I experience . Art deepens and clarifies, sometimes even saves your life."   E. Bender 2005

RESUME

BORN
Umea, Sweden

EXHIBITIONS
2008
Eva Bender, Inspiration and Expression - a retrospective, Suzann H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Lebanon, PA
Eva Bender, New Work, Arts Hotel Gallery, the Lancaster Arts Hotel, Lancaster, PA
2005
Eva Stina Bender, SOLO, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA  
Picturing Pennsylvania: Architecture in the State Landscape 2005
    Pennsylvania Governor's Residence, Harrisburg, PA
Figures, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown , PA
2004
Four Women who Live and Paint in Mount Gretna, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA
Figures, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA
2001
"Vattenfarg", Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, PA
1997
"Recent Watercolors", Demuth Foundation, Lancaster, PA
"Evastina Bender, Akvareller", Galleri Perols, Gayle, Sweden
1996
"Evastinas USA", Lilla Galleriet, Umea, Sweden
"Eva Bender, New Watercolors", Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, PA
1995
"Eva Stina Bender, Painter", John H. Hess Gallery, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA