Evy Olsen Halvorsen (aka Halvorsen Holstein) lives in the town of Kingston in the Pacific Northwest and was born in northern Norway. Evy and her parents immigrated in 1956 to the neighborhood of Ballard in Seattle WA. After graduation from High School, and some community college, Evy moved briefly to San Francisco before landing in Kitsap County with husband and daughters. After raising her daughters, 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. “I am drawn to challenges and sometimes shift styles, looking for a path to a new expression of my thoughts. Metaphors are my current interest and the challenge is to be successful in translating my ideas for the viewer. Sometimes I’ll revise a painting several times before I’m satisfied or sufficiently ok with it”