Meet the Artists, Virginia Rieley & Eliza Evans. Sunday, November 29th from 2-4pm

Join us in the tasting room at Blenheim Vineyards and meet the artists, Virginia Rieley & Eliza Evans. Sunday, November 29th from 2-4pm. Their artwork will be on display and available for purchase.

We will have snacks and wine for sale by the glass, bottle, and flights.

Eliza Evans & Virginia Rieley grew up in North Garden near Charlottesville and have been friends since childhood. They have collaborated artistically (in addition to their respective solo endeavors) for over 35 years.

Eliza Evans has been painting acrylic portraits from life for over 20 years. It takes her about an hour and she usually paints people in one sitting. Each face is unique and worthy and Eliza does her best to catch the spirit and likeness of the person in an efficient way so it doesn’t become boring or uncomfortable. She prefers to paint on wood and she lets the model pick the background color.

Virginia Rieley is a mixed media collage artist who combines her own original photography with watercolor and pen to create layered scenes of local places.

Together, Eliza and Virginia co-create the Every Day is a Holiday Calendar, which they have self-published each year since 2006. The calendar is entirely hand-drawn and features a different holiday for every day of the year, along with both of their original artwork.