Everson Fonseca, born in Maceió, was raised in a farm in Caruaru, Pernambuco, with his three brothers. Painting since he was fifteen years old, he began an architecture course, but didn’t conclude it, deciding to dedicate himself fully to his visual art career.

As an autodidact, Everson explored materials, techniques, and the paint itself for years, refining his methods through trial and error. During his youth, he used diverse medias available in the farm, from boxes to wood, until he found himself in the canvas and oil paint processes.

Moving from a small town like Caruaru to the big city had a huge impact on his work, developing new themes, getting to know new materials, broadening his possible experiments.
 

In 2010, Everson found out about pure pigment, which was a fundamental moment in which he refined his artist process and his work even more. Through the primary colors, Everson learned, by himself, how to create delicate color nuances, applying layers to create extremely realistic and smooth transitions. This new type of pigmentation is fundamental to his current technical process.
 

Everson also makes his own canvases from a pure linen roll, prepared with plaster before starting to paint, which will, after finished, receive a finish coat that absorbs the oil and give the painting a vitreous aspect.

 

Both surrealism and portraiture are combined in Everson Fonseca’s work. With direct influence from René Magritte and Nino Traverso, the artist’s work portrays life’s virtue: the animal, vegetal, and human in mythical creatures, representing the oneiric and transcendental.

 

The artist has a 40-year-old career, with participation in over thirty shows, and also awards, publications, and art fairs all over Brazil.