Eva Hönig was born and raised in Germany where she trained as a furniture/cabinetmaker and finishing carpenter. She obtained a Master's degree in joinery and woodworking and for over ten years worked independently as an interior and furniture designer and builder. After immigrating to Canada, Hönig became involved in public art projects and started to develop her sculpting and painting skills while working as an architectural millworker. Her paintings are now in private and public collections in Germany and Canada.
Painting allows Hönig to be more spontaneous when composing with forms and colours. Her interest in primary colours and geometrical shapes is the inspiration for RED AND NOT RED, a series of acrylic paintings on canvas and panel.
The grammar of her compositions engages time. Time affects the viewing of her works in fascinating ways. Details appear and disappear. Different textures and shines appear to move toward and then away from the viewer. Previously hidden shapes, lines, brush strokes and colours allow their presence to be felt through the exterior paints at times coyly and subtly and at other times abrasively and urgently. Colours start to communicate with each other in quotes and footnotes, in riffs and repartees as well as in more formal discourses.
Hönig created her works by adding layers upon layers of paint and by applying markings onto markings. The viewers in reverse uncover, excavate and re-imagine the original act of creating, and in the act of their discovering, start off another cycle of creation.
The improvisational nature of Hönig's process translate as playful wit and her paintings embody the evanescent and enigmatic qualities of a delightful conversation.
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