The Work of Eva Margot

Eva Margot Roux (born Johansen) was born on January 10, 1944 and grew up with a family of workers in Mosby, a small town ten kilometers north of Kristiansand in Norway.

Although struck by a serious illness at the age of four that had serious consequences for her health, Eva had inner energy and the ability to realize her ideas. She soon revealed the gifts of a designer and storyteller, and began to paint in oil at the age of 12.

A few years later, she took a correspondence drawing course (NKS, Norwegian correspondence course), and enrolled in a painting course with the painter Arne Solheim (1926-2011) in Kristiansand. Then she was a retoucher with photographer Hamre in Kristiansand between 1963 and 1967, and realized her oldest dream: she went to Paris in January 1966. She worked there as an au pair until 1970, and returned to live in Mosby in 1971 with her French husband.

She was therefore able to devote herself to her painting, and began her active career in 1977 by exhibiting a few paintings in the Kristiansand Amateurs' Annual. This environment of young "non-established" artists who inspired each other had the effect of opening a door, and Eva Margot embarked on this path which was hers for the next forty years, multiplying individual or collective exhibitions, and producing hundreds of rich and varied works.

She mounted her last exhibition in 2017, fell seriously ill in 2018, but recovered enough strength to paint until her last day, September 7, 2019.