Evelyn Ortiz

Evelyn Ortiz

Email: evelynortizphoto@gmail.com
Website: www.evelynortiz.net
https://www.instagram.com/evelynortiz.photography

About the artist

Evelyn Ortiz

Born in El Salvador, Evelyn discovered her love for nature and her passion for the arts at an early age by experimenting with multiple media types like oils, acrylics, pastel chalks, metal embossing and others.

She has lived in Europe, Asia and America and her utmost source of inspiration is the immensely detailed beauty of mother nature: the complexity of textures, color compositions, intricate shapes, the surrealism of the sky, the uniqueness of the animal kingdom and the grandiosity of Mother Nature and the Universe.

She is influenced by a multicultural and multidimensional world that guides her art in many directions; in this beautiful journey she’s attuned to capture the grace, the brevity, the deepness of unduplicable moments transforming the image into Haiku poems.

As an Alumni of the Nangyan Academy of Fine Arts, in Singapore, Evelyn displayed her work in a group exhibition named “An Impression” a collection of woodblocks, etching and intaglio techniques that received great accolades.

As a cancer survivor Evelyn takes no moment for granted and her photography captures the essence of life with the eye of a temporary witness who knows that immortalizing the heart of the right moment is the magic that entitles us to re-tell and re-live. Every image is a poem, is a sacred connection to the present moment.

Some of her photography not only resembles modern impressionism but a photographic style born from her love, an intimate relationship with nature, and a clear crusade to capture the Light of life.

Artist Statement

My photography is a Haiku, a visual poetry of the right moment, it reflects my deep connection and love to Mother Earth and all the wonderful beauty and Grace that surrounds us. Haikus are expressions of magical moments and details that can never be recreated, and as I capture these images, I allow my heart to feel the rhythm of creation. In each of them, I try to capture the essence and the soul of Nature. Through my photography I aim to bring awareness and appreciation of beauty, mystery and power of the natural world.

Art Education:
1986 Plastic Arts | School of Arts of Master Miguel Angel Orellana, El Salvador

2008 Oil Painting | Painting Academy Cristian Avilés, Madrid Spain

2012 Printmaking | Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, NAFA Singapore.

2013 Non-Toxic Etching at Art and Printmaking | Marisa Keller Artist studio.

2014 Printmaking | Singapore Tyler Institute STPI.

2018 Digital Photography | Miami Institute of Photography.

2019 Digital Photography | Online courses.

2020 Digital Photography | Online courses.

2023 Photobook as a project | WHOPA Foundation and Yummy Goto.

Upcoming Exhibitions:
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Artworks

The Sky Dancers

“Silence. Observe and perceive what surrounds you and you will connect with the verses of the poetry that nature is whispering to your soul.” Evelyn Ortiz-

The clouds, the palm trees, the mangroves in the wet land confabulate to create the theater for the birds to offer their daily recital; a divine spectacle that doesn’t have rehearsal nor second act. I see the birds dancing in the sky, performing for me in this immense canvas, sometimes miles away from my lens and sometimes so close I can feel the breeze of their wings.

The Sky Dancers evokes the freedom and the rhythm of life in the middle of the clouds. In this work of deep feeling and brevity, I’m trying to capture a Haiku in every image.

When all the senses are present at any given moment is when we really understand the simplicity and the complexity of being alive.

We live in this world of beautiful nature, where everything and everyone has a rhythm.