About Evy Olsen Halvorsen

Evy Olsen Halvorsen (aka Halvorsen Holstein) was born in northern Norway and currently lives in Kingston, Washington state. Evy and her parents immigrated in 1956 to the neighborhood of Ballard in Seattle. After graduation from high school, Evy moved briefly to San Francisco before landing in Kitsap County with her husband and daughters.

After raising her daughters and owning a couple of businesses, she continued her education at Cornish College of the Arts, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts, cum laude in 1999, in Painting and Printmaking.

“Perhaps because of the landscape of my childhood I am drawn to creating a sense of space, color. Norway is a dramatic country especially the islands I come from which are above the Arctic circle. I love that open country, sharp mountains rising out of the sea, the quickly changing sky. Not unlike the home I have here, water, mountains and open skies.”