Eva Francis is a contemporary West Coast landscape painter. She received her BFA
from the University of Manitoba, and studied Communication Design at Parsons School
of Design in New York. Born and raised in
the interior of British Columbia, she pursued
a career in graphic design.

After raising three daughters with her husband and moving to cities such as Vancouver, Edmonton, Seattle, and Strasbourg, France, Eva returned to making paintings.

It was at a gallery in Banff, Alberta, where
she first saw a painting using wax, then at
a number of galleries in Europe where they were labelled as mixed media. Intrigued, she did some research on the internet and found some workshops in the US. Since then shehas taken part in a number of shows on the North Shore, Vancouver and Salt Spring Island.

You can find Eva in her garden studio in West Vancouver most days working on panels large and small; after she has gone on a hike or snowshoe on the North Shore Mountains. Her windows look out on the Strait of Georgia (Salish Sea) and Gulf Islands where freighters, seaplanes and flocks of crows are seen on their daily commute.