Short Biography

Vonnie Banville Evans was born in Wexford in 1941.
She grew up in a house in the Faythe with her brothers Vincent and John.
She went to work in Dublin in 1959 where she met and married Jim Evans who was working there as a printer.
In a bid to escape the rat race and to live life closer to nature they returned to Wexford in 1972 with their three sons.
They renovated a small workers cottage not too far from the sea and opened a modest printing business that provided a livlihood and allowed them time to take part in the village life of Castlebridge and the time to walk on Curracloe beach discussing sand and sea and ceiling wax...
Egged on by Jim, Vonnie provided illustrations for many of the products they printed and she began her career as a novelist by writing her first book about the Wexford of her childhood.
Jim died in 2005 and he can still be heard in the wind at Curracloe beach by those who loved him,
especially Vonnie.
She has continued writing and painting and is delighted when other people take pleasure in her work.
She finds much of her inspiration in nature and in the history of the people of Wexford.
Although Vonnie likes to visit Lucca in Italy to sip a glass of something nice while sketching its ancient walls, she prefers to walk to the end of Curracloe beach and look out over the bay at her home town and be thankful for her life and all her of her friends past and present.