OlgaEvenden_AbstractArt

OlgaEvenden_AbstractArt Olga Evenden is a multi-disciplinary artist from Dublin, Ireland.

I’ve been up to my eyes lately finishing off the teaching year, alongside all the usual parenting chaos, so I’ve been a ...
19/05/2026

I’ve been up to my eyes lately finishing off the teaching year, alongside all the usual parenting chaos, so I’ve been a bit quieter on here than normal.

I wanted to share this painting though because I really love it, and I don’t think it’s gotten enough attention.

It’s called Amháin, which means “one” in Irish. The title came from the monochromatic colour palette and the idea of keeping everything within one tonal family, letting the brush texture and palette shifts do the work rather than creating a strong contrast between colours.

I think maybe that sense of reduction is why I keep coming back to it lately. Life feels very noisy at the moment, and this painting feels like the opposite of that somehow.

Acrylic on canvas.
65 x 90 cm.

15/05/2026

Using Procreate to test ideas and colour palettes before they make it onto canvas.

It’s not as instinctive as paint, or as intuitive as standing in front of a canvas with a brush in hand, but it helps me free up space in my head and offload ideas quickly.

Almost like visual note taking, or making lists.

I can come back to these studies later when I have more time in the studio, and sometimes they end up leading the work somewhere completely different :-)

05/05/2026

I’ve been feeling really boxed in lately. Not by ideas, but by what I had to work with. Limited tools, limited space (this is really holding me back), and never enough time. And right now, time and space aren’t things I can change. So I stopped fighting that part and changed what I could. I updated some of my tools with these brushes as I’ve wanted to create more washes to play with density. Im looking forward to stretching some new canvas and seeing what I create. Watch this space! 🙂

02/05/2026

In this piece, i focused on texture in the brushwork. I like when you can see layers and mistakes build up instead of big flat blocks of colour. I always want the paint to have snippets of irregularities.

Swipe right to see the stages of this painting 🫶
01/05/2026

Swipe right to see the stages of this painting 🫶

30/04/2026

This Reel shows the various stages of Liminal, it was built up in layers, the decisions altered and the piece changed as it went.

My work is never about getting it perfect, but more about knowing when to stop.

28/04/2026

Working my way through this 💚

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