Vevonna started painting as a child at her mother’s side, oil paints and canvas spread out on a plastic sheet in front of the fireplace. It was easy. It was fun. It led to degrees in Art and Art Education. It would follow her throughout her life. Eventually it became her career, but not before a series of side steps, first to Peru to work and then foreign travel and living. Those experiences would begin to shape her art: towering onion domes and thick hot jungles, Siberian winters with fog rolling off frozen rivers and mud trails to Scythian mounds, catatonic cattle on the streets of New Delhi.
 

Stone House Studio, and then Andre House Arts were the first serious incursion into commercializing her art, with clients ranging from the Dickinson School of Law to publishing houses in Philadelphia and ad agencies in New York.
 

But then, after a decade, she was off again to Europe and the wonders of history’s evolving art, only to enjoy it though, as her involvement with the NATO Defense College took up most of her time. Returning home, she worked with floral design and interior decorating until returning to Europe, this time to immerce herself in the former Soviet world.

Finally home, at sixty, she returned to a growing tribe of grandchildren and painting for the fun of painting. So here we are. Her art is all over the place: florals, portraits, landscapes, animals, architecture, vehicles, watercolor and oil, guache and acrylic: just fun, and sharing her sights and memories.