2025

Eva says of her recent body of work:

“My minimalist landscapes reflect more than my enduring love of and need for being in nature. As a two times immigrant - half my lifetime ago from Germany to Scotland, then on to Aotearoa New Zealand - I explore in my paintings my experiences of longing and belonging, and how landscapes and associated occurrences are simultaneously engraved into and altered by memory. The resulting “mindscapes” or “memoryscapes” in muted, earthy colours invite the viewer to retreat into them, offering a space of stillness and rediscovery of places once familiar, yet with a quiet appreciation of the transience of everything.

In these works I often utilise hessian as my canvas, a material I am drawn to due to the three-dimensionality of its texture that remains revealed and thus becomes an integral part of the paintings. It influences greatly the distribution of the paint, pushing me to alternate between controlling and letting go, an apt reflection of the process of deliberate emigration. I work with brushes, cloths and bamboo sticks.”