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===Inspiration, style, and technique===
Evans began to [[Drawing|draw]] and [[Painting|paint]] at the age of 43, creating her first pieces of artwork on a scrap of paper bag. She was known to free-hand her drawings from left to right.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About the Artist: Minnie Evans {{!}} Folkstreams|url=https://www.folkstreams.net/film-context.php?id=120|access-date=2020-11-12|website=www.folkstreams.net|language=en}}</ref> Minnie Evans was notorious for drawing with anything on hand, including discarded window shades, book bindings, scrap paper. She also favored the use of Crayola crayons as she said “they are the best.”<ref>
Evans drawings were inspired by her dreams and filled with many colors inspired by her work at Airlie Gardens. Her designs are complex, with elements recalling the art of [[China]] and the [[Caribbean]] combined with more Western themes. The central [[Motif (visual arts)|motif]] in many pieces is a human face surrounded by plant and animal forms. The eyes, which Evans equated with God's omniscience, are central to each figure, often three eyes were depicted and frontal faces with concealed lips. Symmetry was also a common theme in Evans' work<ref name="Folk Art Messenger" /> In addition, [[God]] is sometimes depicted with [[wing]]s and a multicolored collar and [[Halo (religious iconography)|halo]] and shown surrounded by all manner of creatures.
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