About the Artist

Darla Myers lives and paints in Eureka, CA. She works in multiple painting mediums including encaustic, cold wax & oil and acrylic. A passion for color, and a healthy dose of curiosity keep her exploring, and learning new ways of rendering nature in art. Joyful, expressive color and degrees of abstraction are commonalities in her work.

Myers builds layers in encaustic and intermittently scrapes and incises them, building a rich surface and leaving glimpses of under layers. Her encaustic paintings are multilayered (10-30+), with each molten layer fused to the previous using a butane torch. Over the past year she has also been painting in acrylic, again working in many layers to create more abstracted colorful works, infused with color and movement.

Born and raised in rural Southern Oregon, she escaped the hard work of ranching and became a Registered Nurse, (another kind of really hard work.) Along the way an Intro to Watercolor course in 1998 opened up the world of art to Darla. She has followed that thread and continued to paint, study and explore art-making since that introduction.

Being a Nurse, married to a Nurse made it fairly easy to follow mutual curiosity and love of the outdoors, and they have lived and worked in Colorado, Alaska, Montana and now Eureka, CA. Myers was actively teaching Intro to Encaustic painting workshops and showing art in Montana prior to a mid pandemic move to Eureka late 2020. Her spouses’ career as a Flight RN brought them back to the West Coast.