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. [Retun to the Eve Mero Portfolio]    EVE MERO Bio and Technique Eve Mero is a California artist whose work has been influenced by the multiple serious interests in her life. Her earliest focused endeavor was in the field of music, in which she studied piano, voice, theory, and music literature at Baylor University. Later, her interests turned more towards the areas of history and English literature. She composed poetry, taught world history, and studied the history of art. Following an intense period of training and practice in the field of artistic and architectural design, she commenced her studio studies in art. Throughout her career, she has integrated her professional interests with a family life centered around three children and the demands of her husband's medical practice. In her work as an architectural designer, her self-styled approach was distinctive for the ways it incorporated the techniques of musical composition into the creative process. In the Ojai Project, which marked the culmination of her design activities, architecture became like visual contrapuntal music. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times and a book conceived by Architectural Digest. Eve Mero's art also has its roots in music, whether it be in the way she approaches the composition of a collage or in the styling of her oil paintings where rhythm and timbre often dominate. Her collage work tends towards the intellectual, her painting emphasizes the sensual, and her printmaking incorporates both. As a member of the Santa Barbara Printmakers' Association, her most recent exhibition was in a group show juried by Patrick Merrill at the Faulkner Gallery in Santa Barbara. Eve Mero's art explores whatever ideas may be on her mind, be they personal or political. Her art is always meaningful, even if the meaning may simply be a feeling. She believes in art as a powerful means of communication. Even today when people have too much to do, art remains patient and willing to wait until there is both need and time. Technical Process for "Violent Society" In the original serigraph, "Violent Society," each color is laid down on archival Bristol stock by a separately prepared silkscreen. 1) For the mustard background, a screen drawing fluid was applied to a stretched screen with a brayer and allowed to dry. Then screen filler was applied to the entire surface with a scoop coater. The drawing fluid was washed out to leave the open area where the mustard colored ink could be applied with a squeegee. 2) For the pink spirals the same technique was utilized on a new screen, the only difference being that the image was applied with a thin pointed brush. 3) The green streaks were achieved by using a torn paper stencil applied to an empty screen. 4) The red images employed using stems and flowers as the means of applying the drawing fluid. The remainder of the process for preparing the screen was the same as described in screens one through three. 5) The turquoise utilized the same technique described as with the red. 6) A green highlight over the turquoise also was done like the red. 7) The dark blue utilized the same technique as the red, the green highlight and the turquoise, each on a separate screen. 8) The black profile utilized the same technique used for the pink. Eve Mero website: www.evemero.com [Eve Mero Portfolio | Top]