Artist: Leya Evelyn
About the artist:
Leya Evelyn was born in Washington, D.C. and educated at Brown and Yale Universities. She moved from New York City to Nova Scotia in the early 1980s. Leya exhibits her work widely in Canada and the U.S., as well as across Europe. Leya became an elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 2011. She has taught both privately and NSCAD University in Halifax. Read more about Leya here.
We asked the artist:
What is your biggest indulgence as an artist?
Art supplies: paint and canvases.
What is important to you as an artist?
To have time and money to paint.
What challenges you the most in your practice?
Finances, lack of sales.
If you were to hang one work of art by another artist in your home, which would you choose?
Rembrandt.