Eve Riser-Roberts, Artist
Eve Riser-Roberts received her B.S. and M.S. from the University of Arizona and her Ph.D. from the University of London, England, in Microbiology. She worked for 20 years in scientific and medical research in the U.S., Germany, and England. She has written and published two technical books on biological, physical, and chemical processes for cleaning up the environment from petroleum contamination.
Eve is now a full-time artist! She studied art in London and Wales and at Ventura College, CA, and has participated in numerous art workshops conducted by nationally acclaimed artists. She has been honored to receive awards for her art in California and national competitions. Her oil paintings, etchings, acrylics, and watercolors are in collections in England, Germany, and the U.S.
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My life has now gone full circle. After more than 20 years of scientific and medical research in three countries, I have come back to my first love, art. There are many ways art and science are related. Creativity and imagination are elements of both. Now I apply my love of experimentation to works on paper and canvas. Ideas play a part in my paintings. I enjoy working in series, that is, producing paintings along a certain theme. This forces an artist to move beyond a routine, comfortable style or approach. There is a point in a series when the artist who is open to the process has a shift, as something from within rises to be expressed. And this is when something original and exciting happens. It's unpredictable. It may be the mind subconsciously manipulating various factors and suddenly expelling them as a solution to a problem. It might be something new in a totally different direction. Looking back over my works, I can see that the awards I've won have often acknowledged the uniqueness and originally that resulted from this process. I am finding that a part of myself that has worked its way into some of my paintings is a touch of humor. But this humor can take different forms. It can be amusing. It can just be a unique twist. Even in the art parody series based on other artists' styles, I see my own originality and sense of fun. Painting cats allows me to try out some wild ideas and go where my imagination takes me. But I also love painting the female figure and have combined the two in another series, "Woman with Cat". The response to the Famous Artists' Cats series has been a treat. Newspaper articles, images included in books and used by publishers for book covers, orders from around the world, along with awards for the original paintings. So many delightful surprises for something that just started out as a cat painting for a girlfriend's birthday.
On the other hand, since 2004, I have been developing a new concept, combining vintage and antique jewelry with vintage haori and michiyuki kimonos, into a chatelaine revival with a twist. Coming soon!
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Awards and Solo Exhibitions:
2010: Photograph published in a
book from the Riverside Publishing Co., Rolling Meadows,
IL
Solo
Show in Second Life with Woman with Cat Series
2009: Artwork featured in a
new play opening in London, England,
by acclaimed playwright, Stephen
Hunt
Artwork used as the cover for the book, Caterwaul
2007: Artwork published in the book, Planet Cat, Houghton Mifflin Co.
2004: Honorable Mention
2-D/3-D/Photography, Thousand Oaks Art Assn. Art &
Photography
Show, Thousand Oaks,
CA
Juror for
BTDesign Awards, International Awards Program, by
invitation
Editorial on one of her figurative paintings in Ventura, CA
newspaper
Artwork used as a book cover by the Berlin Verlag,
Germany
2003: Juror for BTDesign Awards, International Awards
Program, by invitation
2002: Juror for Surreal
Awards, International Internet Awards Program, by
invitation
Juror for BTDesign Awards, International Internet Awards Program, by
invitation
Awards for website, The Cat
Gallery
Article on Famous Artists' Cats series in the New York City newspaper,
Newsday
(July 30,
2002)
Article
on Famous Artists' Cats series in the newspaper, The Kansas City
Star
(August 13,
2002)
Article on Famous Artists' Cats series in the newspaper, San Francisco
Chronicle
(October 12,
2002)
Honorable Mention 2-D, Buenaventura Art Assn. Open Competition, Ventura,
CA
2001: Artist of the Month,
Ascension Gallery of Fine Art, New Zealand Internet Art
Gallery
Artist of the Month, BT Designs Fine Art Gallery, Italian Internet Art
Gallery
Second Place Aquamedia, California Goldcoast Watercolor Society Open
Competition
Solo Show at Camarillo Commercial Bank, Camarillo,
CA
Second
Place Mixed Media, Ventura County Fair Prof. Arts Div., Ventura,
CA
Honorable Mention Fine Art, The Thousand Oaks Arts
Commission
Juried Art & Photography Show, Thousand Oaks,
CA
Artwork
published in the November 2001 (vol. 5, No. 9) issue of Muse, from
the
Publishers of Cricket and the
Smithsonian
Second Place Acrylics, Camarillo Art Center Comp., Camarillo,
CA
Third
Place Acrylics, Camarillo Art Center Comp., Camarillo,
CA
Awards
for website, The Cat Gallery
2000: Solo Exhibition,
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard,
CA
First
Place Mixed Media, Ventura County Fair Prof. Arts Div., Ventura,
CA
First
Place Mixed Media Camarillo Art Center Ann.
Comp.
Second Place Acrylics, Camarillo Art Center Ann. Comp.
1999: Director's Choice Award, Carnegie Art Museum,
Oxnard, CA
First Place Mixed Media, Ventura County Fair Prof. Arts Div., Ventura,
CA
Coorganizer for the Artists-by-the-Sea Studio Tour, Oxnard Art Assn./Ventura
County
Maritime Museum
1998: Best of
Show Camarillo Art Center, Camarillo,
CA
Honorable Mention Camarillo Art Center, Camarillo,
CA
Second
Place 2-D/3-D/Photography, Thousand Oaks Art Assn. Art & Photography
Show,
Thousand Oaks,
CA
Special
Award Ventura County Fair Prof. Arts Div., Ventura,
CA
Fourth
Place Ventura County Fair Prof. Arts Div., Ventura,
CA
Honorable Mention 2-D, Buenaventura Art Assn., Ventura,
CA
Honorable Mention California Gold Coast Watercolor Society, Ojai,
CA
1997: First Place 2-D
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard,
CA
First
Place California Goldcoast Watercolor Society, Thousand Oaks,
CA
Honorable Mention California Goldcoast Watercolor Society, Thousand Oaks,
CA
Second
Place California Goldcoast Watercolor Society, Ojai,
CA
Third
Place 2-D,City of Thousand Oaks Art & Photography Show, Thousand Oaks,
CA
Honorable Mention Ventura County Fair Prof. Arts Div., Ventura, CA
1996: Da Vinci Award
Watercolor West National Competition, Brea,
CA
Third
Place 2-D/3-D/Photography, Thousand Oaks Art Assn., Thousand Oaks,
CA
Honorable Mention 2-D, Buenaventura Art Assn., Ventura,
CA
Honorable Mention Ventura County Fair Prof. Arts Div., Ventura,
CA
Honorable Mention 3rd Floor Gallery Open Competition, Ventura,
CA
Commendation from City of Ventura for coordinating conversion of old Women's
Jail
on top floor of the City Hall into an art
gallery
Invitation by charity organization, Interface, to design their 1996 Christmas
Card
1995: Special Award 2-D/3-D/Photography, City of Thousand
Oaks Art & Photography
Show,
Thousand
Oaks, CA
Second Place, Ventura County Fair Prof. Arts Div, Ventura,
CA
Third
Place 2-D, Oxnard Art Assn, Oxnard,
CA
Honorable Mention 2-D Oxnard Art Assn, Oxnard,
CA
Honorable Mention 2-D Buenaventura Art Assn., Ventura,
CA
Honorable Mention 2-D Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard,
CA
2-Artist Show, Main Street Architects, Ventura, CA
1994: Best of Show,
California Gold Coast Watercolor Society, Ojai,
CA
Second
Place California Gold Coast Watercolor Society, Ojai,
CA
Honorable Mention California Gold Coast Watercolor Society, Ojai,
CA
Signature Membership,California Gold Coast Watercolor Soc.
1993: First Place 2-D City
of Thousand Oaks Art & Photography Show, Thousand Oaks,
CA
First
Place 2-D, Oxnard Art Assn., Oxnard,
CA
Honorable Mention 2-D, Oxnard Art Assn., Oxnard,
CA
Third
Place 2-D, City of Oxnard Art Exhibit, Ventura County Gov't. Ctr., Ventura,
CA
Honorable Mention Ventura County Fair Prof. Arts Div., Ventura,
CA
Honorable Mention Port Hueneme Artists Exhibit, Ventura County Gov't.
Ctr.,
Ventura, CA