"Born to a family of farmers near Wilmington, North Carolina, Minnie Evans (1892-1987) never intentionally set out to become an artist. She observed the rural landscapes of her early childhood home in Pender County, then moved to Wilmington, where she attended school until the sixth grade. She married, had three children, and was devoted to her religious beliefs. Steered by vivid dreams and visions, she made her first drawing on Good Friday in 1935, when she was in her early 40s."
""I never plan a drawing. They just happen," Evans said in 1969, when her work had begun to gain recognition. "In a dream, it was shown to me what I have to do, of paintings. The whole entire horizon all the way across the whole earth was out together like this with pictures. All over my yard, up all the sides of trees and everywhere were pictures.""
Minnie Evans was born near Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1892 to a family of farmers and left formal schooling after the sixth grade. She married, raised three children, and maintained strong religious beliefs. Vivid dreams and visions prompted her first drawing on Good Friday in 1935, and she described receiving images shown to her in dreams. At age 56 she worked as an admissions taker at Airlie Gardens, where trees and flowers became recurring motifs. Her work emphasizes foliage, petals, and faces arranged in loose symmetry, uses ink, crayon, pencil, paint, and pen, and features vibrant color and repeated patterns.
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