About

Most days, the beauty in this world is breathtaking. I can’t help but respond in awe to the Lord through making art. It’s a wonderful adventure, which I'd love to share with you.

Meet the Artist

Evelyn Espinoza is a multidisciplinary artist working in digital montage photography, watercolor, and oil painting. Her work explores memory, travel, and the emotional landscapes we construct from the places we experience. Rather than documenting a location exactly as it appeared, she creates images that reflect how it is remembered—layered, selective, and deeply personal.

During her travels, Evelyn photographs everything that captures her attention, from expansive landscapes and architecture to subtle textures, changing light, and fleeting moments. Returning home, she revisits hundreds of photographs, selecting fragments that best represent her experience of a place. Using only her own photographs, she digitally cuts, layers, erases, and rearranges as many as thirty separate images into a single composition. The finished montages become visual memories: dreamlike interpretations in which some details emerge vividly while others fade into the background, much like memory itself.

Her photographs also serve as the foundation for her watercolor and oil paintings, allowing her to revisit places through multiple artistic processes. Working in series, she often explores a single location or subject from different perspectives, revealing the colors, patterns, and emotional connections that continue to evolve long after the journey has ended.

Evelyn has been creating digital montage photography and oil paintings since 2007 and has worked in watercolor since 2017. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from the University of Hertfordshire in England and has continued her professional development through advanced study in traditional painting, figurative drawing, portraiture, photography, marketing, and art business.

Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, South Korea, and Japan, earning national and international recognition in photography, digital montage, and painting. She is represented by Helotes Art Gallery and Doriva Local Art Source in San Antonio and is a member of the American Watercolor Society, Texas Watercolor Society, Northwest Watercolor Society, Watercolor Society of Alabama, Women in Watercolor, and other professional arts organizations.

In 2022, Evelyn wrote and illustrated the children's book Kimono Dragon Records, inspired by her years living in Japan. Whether creating photographs, paintings, or books, her work is driven by a fascination with how travel transforms our memories and how art allows us to revisit those experiences long after the journey has ended.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Fine Art
University of Hertfordshire, England

Professional Development

Continuing education in:

Traditional Painting
Figurative Drawing
Portraiture
Photography
Marketing
Art Business

Gallery Representation

2026–Present
Helotes Art Gallery, Helotes, Texas

2025–Present
Doriva Local Art Source Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

Selected Exhibitions

2026 2D Big & Bold Exhibition - New Braunfels Art League
2026 National Online Showcase – Watercolor Society of Alabama
2025 76th Annual Exhibition – Texas Watercolor Society
2025 84th Annual National Exhibition – Watercolor Society of Alabama
2024 Women in Watercolor Members International Exhibition (Finalist)
2024 Splash 25: The Best of Watercolor (Finalist)
2023 Aqueous Open International Exhibition – Pittsburgh Watercolor Society
2023 Emerald Coast National Juried Art Exhibition
2022 Collage Artists of America – Internal Dialogue
2021 National Juried Photography Show – Louisville Art Association
2020 Culture Center of Cape Cod – Abstractions
2019 Manhole Covers of Japan (Solo Exhibition), Artel Gallery
2018 Las Laguna Gallery
2016 Artbox.Projects Spectrum Miami
2016 Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Awards

2026 First Place - Manipulated Photography - Figure Photos Category, World Art Awards
2026 Third Place - Manipulated Photography - Landscape or Still Life Category, World Art Awards
2026 Second Place – Manipulated Photography, American Art Awards
2025 Honorable Mention – Teravana Art Gallery
2025 Distinction Award – Gallery 4%
2024 Finalist – Splash 25: The Best of Watercolor
2023 Award of Distinction – Pensacola Interstate Fair
2023 First Place – Northwest Florida Fair Fine Arts Exhibition
2021 First Place – Digital Manipulation, National Juried Photography Show
2020 Second Place – Nothing in Nature Clashes, Culture Center of Cape Cod
2019 Best in Show – Artel Gallery
2019 Finalist – Artist of the Year Award & Grant, Circle Foundation for the Arts
2017 First Place – Digital Creation, Tokyo, Japan