Epulo Bistro // Becca Lavin, Wendy Rader-Konofalski & Laura Steeves

190 Sunset Ave, open Sunday - Thursday 4-8:30pm , Friday - Saturday 3-9:30pm
SEE ART ALL MONTH DURING BUSINESS HOURS AND ART WALK ON APRIL 17TH 5-8PM

Becca Lavin started painting in 2020 when her 20 year old private massage therapy practice closed its doors for the last time. Becca's art is mainly abstract or representational abstract using every medium that is within reach. It is restless, colorful and textured with a mind of its own. If there is a theme, she hasn't found it yet. Perhaps, Freedom. By the time she finishes a painting there is usually a deep understanding that has surfaced, for her. She leaves the rest to the observer as that is one of the magical things about abstract. The utter subjectiveness of what comes through to the observer.

Wendy Rader-Konofalski is a local artist who started painting later in life. A brush with death and seven weeks in the hospital and a long recovery may have worked a form of magic on her brain that opened up a portal into a creativity that she never knew existed. Wendy paints on canvas with acrylics, but often use mixed media elements such as charcoal and ink. She enjoys including collage in her work. She paints abstract works and landscapes as well as small florals. Wendy views her work as a sort of symbiotic relationship: herself as artist, and you as viewer.

Laura Steeves unearths an innate love of vibrant bold colors and unworldly elements, reminiscent of her childhood in Colombia. She works with mixed media via an intuitive process that has no plan or end goal in mind but rather sets an intention to evoke some deeper meaning in herself and others. She uses color to reveal those hidden things and texture to emphasize them, merging them into a bigger, livening story. Each corner of her works begins, at one part of that story and at some other inevitable point they collapse and coalesce into one another. Her works are a symbol of time and expression over a lifetime.