Since joining the Eyes of Hawaii photography club in Honolulu, several people were asking me about what it was like to live in Ecuador. Being a photography club, I decided the best way to explain it was by creating a slide show / video for them. In looking over our photographic resources from our living […]
Cuenca Artists Celebrate Cafe Reopening 2020
More than 120 people packed the inside and outside the Casa Azul cafe to welcome the new owners, Jose and Vivi, as they reopened a favorite artist’s haunt originally created by Gregory Kluyskens, a charismatic Belgium entrepreneur. Everyone was asking how we could display 6 artists in such a small gallery. When the furniture was […]
Evelyn Wins First Place – Christmas Photo Contest
Christmas in Cuenca culminated with Evelyn being selected as the winner of the Cuenca Dispatch and CuencaHighLife Christmas photo contest. The winning photo shows a girl holding a candle at the annual International Chorale Christmas concert, seen above. December is always a busy month for us in Cuenca. There are always so many choices that all […]
Group Art Show at CVA
Alberto Soriano and Evelyn Johnson looking at a painting from Evelyn’s new music series. For the month of November, Evelyn was invited to participate in a group show of 8 artists at one of Cuenca’s newest fine arts galleries, Cuenca Visual Arts (CVA) that opened early 2018. Garry Kaulitz and Janda Grove created the gallery, […]
Art Exhibition – Visions Beyond Frontiers
It seems that every time Evelyn has an art reception, it’s pouring rain. Some of the guests came in soaked, and we heard many others could not find taxis. Even with the inclement weather, more than a hundred braved the storm to attend the opening night, which was located at the Miguel C. lllescas Art […]
Women in Art 2017
More than 400 guests attended opening night for Mujeres en el Arte (Women in the Arts), a collective art exhibition sponsored by the Mayor of Cuenca and the Ministry of Culture, Education and Sports. 65 women artists with 77 sculptures and paintings were presented in this month-long exhibit. The quality of the art, the variety […]
Evelyn Johnson’s Art Show Articles
Tomorrow marks our 3rd anniversary of moving to Cuenca to start our retired life. In researching what to say in tomorrow’s post, we came across two articles about Evelyn that never made it into our blog. Both were articles that came out in March 2016, just as we were preparing to leave for Turkey for […]
Cuenca Art Walk 2016
Last Friday was the art reception at the Mayor’s Gallery that launched the Cuenca Art Walk 2016. This was followed by a self-guided art tour of 55 locations throughout the historic el centro district of Cuenca, all day Saturday and Sunday. Evelyn Johnson and fellow artist Garry Kaulitz exhibited at the Casa Artesanal, AKA Carolina […]
Mayor’s Gallery Art Reception
Last night was an art reception at the Mayor’s Gallery(aka Galería de la Alcaldía) to kick off the weekend of the Cuenca Art Walk 2016. There was a fusion of more than 30 national and foreign artists who are living in Ecuador represented at the gallery, each with a single piece of their work. This […]
Cyprus 6 – Evelyn’s Birthday
Today was Evelyn’s birthday, and it turned out to be quite eventful (but remember that we never ask a woman how old she is…). As we were driving from the village of Vouni to Paphos in Cyprus this morning, we saw some goats in a field, and decided to stop to photograph them. Every time […]