mcfarlane

Evelyn McFarlane is a painter living and working in Florence Italy. She was born in Brooklyn N.Y. and graduated from Cornell University, with a degree in architecture. After working and teaching as an architect she decided to follow her heart into a career in painting and began a three year program of drawing at the Florence Academy of Art, in Italy, under the direction of Daniel Graves. Her passions are art and architecture of the renaissance and she lectures on architecture for various programs in Florence. She is also a co-author of a series of books entitled, ‘If.... Questions for the Game of Life’

As an architect and painter I have always found my inspiration in the Renaissance and have admired modern artists who have been able to abstract the beauty of the forms found in that period and express it in their own work. As a student of architecture I made my first trip to Italy on a study program which focused on the work of Palladio, who successfully combined architecture with art and sculpture. My love of Italy has since endured and I have found inspiration here for the last ten years. In my work I strive to represent all the aspects of nature that are found in it’s inherent beauty: the forms, rhythms, light, richness of color and texture.