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About Eve |
Currently a Big Island, Hawaii and Boulder, Colorado resident, Eve lived fulltime on the home of her heart, the Big Island of Hawaii Her educational background includes artwork at the Penland School of Crafts as well as a magna cum laude Biochemistry degree and an M.A. in English from Virginia Tech. She is published in We'Moon, and has won awards from the curators of the Corcoran and the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has taught contemplative arts at Naropa University, the Watershed School and is part of the new Open Studios School of Art, as well as Boulder's Open Studios Art Tour. Though she is not a devotee of any one particular spiritual tradition, she is deeply guided and committed to generating love and connection through her multimedia artworks and singing. She leads kirtan chanting at the Mandala Center and other sacred spaces, and has performed with Anton Mizerak at Boulder's Unity Church. She spends her time painting, teaching art, singing, and hiking/meditating in nature.  On the Big Island, she spends much solitude time in nature to connect with unique island natural spaces and places, in ways many Hawaiian residents have not yet experienced. Her sensitivity and attunement to nature open magical doorways for her to enjoy and explore, which she now shares with small groups on her sacred Big Island tours and retreats. Eve's last name is "Naia", which means "dolphin" in Hawaiian. Eve was called to swim with a pod of spinner dolphins for years, and learned many beautiful lessons from the dolphin ohana. She was called to the island by the humpbacked whales. As an artist on the mainland, Eve entered deep meditative states while painting, and began to hear songs of humpbacked whales during her painting sessions. Eve initially planned a month's vacation on the Big Island; however, within the first 2 weeks there, she unexpectedly found herself with 3 other sensitive whale guided humans kayaking, swimming and singing with the wise and loving humpbacks, who kept telling her "HOME, HOME, HOME". After 5 kayak visits and swims with the humpbacks, she heeded the humpbacks' message and did not board the plane for her return flight - she lived there for years and left her mainland life, studio and belongings on the mainland and became a Hawaii resident for years thereafter. As her sensitivity to island life developed, she began to receive and paint the earth healing mandalas, which all show people on planet earth connected at the heart and supported by a force of love within and around the earth that hums and shines. After years there painting, being, teaching art to elementary school children, swimming with the dolphins and meditating in nature, she was guided to share the work on the mainland as well . . . to share the Aloha. |
for years. She now spends part of each year on the mainland to share her artwork, teaching and chanting music. Eve was first guided to travel from the Big Island in 2003 to Europe and the U.S. to share the healing mandala paintings she received in meditation while living on the Big Island. She enjoys sharing her love and special connection with the Big Island's beauty and magic with selected small groups on her sacred Big Island tours.