What is the best thing that I love about my work?
I am an artist-printmaker, concentrating on copperplate engraving since 1960. My materials and methods are the same as those used 600 years ago by great Old-Masters, such as Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, and later masters such as William Blake.
My working process is relaxed and feels somewhat meditative, seeking balance between opposing realities.

What is my idea of perfect happiness?
Knowing that I can enjoy making prints and communicate to others via my medium of copperplate engravings.

What is my greatest fear?
The politics of fear, ignorance, hate and greed.

What is the trait that I most deplore in myself?
I devote little time to socializing. My brain prefers to concentrate on the plate of copper that is in progress on my workbench.

Which living persons in my profession do i most admire?
By the middle of the 20th Century, the medium of copperplate engraving had been forgotten by most artists. Recently, a few younger printmakers, including contemporary Americans Oscar Gillespie, James Ehlers, and Ashton Ludden, have picked up the engraving tradition.

What is my greatest extravagance?
The linear details that I achieve in my engravings are time-consuming. At my advancing age, time is valuable. I am patient.

On what occasion would I lie?
When my over-burdoned memory fails to remind me about some good achievement of another person.
 
What is the thing that I dislike the most in my work?
My beloved Intaglio printing process is difficult and painful for aging bones.

When and where was I the happiest, in my work?
In recent years, I work every day on a series of engravings about famous Old-Master Engravers. These images may be seen at my website:
http://www.evanlindquist.com/

If I could, what would I change about myself?
I am reclusive. My method of copperplate engraving is time-consuming. I should get out and meet people. But I continue to work in solitude, isolated.

What is my greatest achievement in work?
I am proud to bear the honorary title “Artist Laureate 2013-2017” created and conferred upon me by the Governor and Legislature of The State of Arkansas. I taught printmaking for 40 years to talented and creative students. 

What do the words ‘The Financial Freedom to Create’ mean to me?
As an artist, I am fortunate to have many people believe in what I do. They have purchased my work and honored me financially and in many other ways. I designed a course to teach the business aspects of Art so that my students could know how to make it happen for them also.

Where would I most like to live?
I have always chosen to live in small towns with my family where I am not tempted and lured away from productive time in my studio. So I remain reclusive. I would enjoy spending time in a large city with a large Arts population, but I have worked in Jonesboro, Arkansas, since 1963.

What is my most treasured possession?
My life was enhanced when my personal studio was funded and built by many local friends, architects, bankers and builders who wanted to give me financial freedom and space to do my work. Inside the two-story studio is my personal etching press, made in 1964 in Florence Italy. The studio has a functional Trombe Wall to assist with heating and ventilation.

What is my most marked characteristic?
My Swedish-American parents and grandparents encouraged and inspired Reticence. In the 1960s, I was learning the Russian language as a military Interrogator, and all of my Russian teachers commented about my Russian spoken with a Swedish accent.

What is my most inspirational location, in my city?
My personal studio. I have also enjoyed inspiring trips to a local wildlife park — Craighead Forest — where my drawing students could work with the landscape around a lake and forest.

What is my favourite place to eat and drink, in my city?
At home with my artist-wife and our favorite canine pet (who provides us with a daily routine which we must follow).

What books influenced my life and how?
At the age of 14, I began collecting old, antique volumes of “Don Quixote” by Cervantes, illustrated by old artist-engravers. I also collected books about calligraphy to enhance my youthful calligraphy business from 1950 to 1960. These old books helped lead me toward my adult career as an artist-printmaker.

Who are my favorite writers?
My favorite readings involve the Arts of the past.

You Only Die Once. What music would I listen on my last day?
Classic guitar music by Andres Segovia

Who is my hero or heroine in fiction?
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple is great for entertainment.

Who are my heroes and heroines in real life?
My heroine in real life is Sharon Lindquist, my wife, also an artist.
My hero in real life saved my life in 1943. This small-town doctor drove to a military base to beg for a new drug called Penicillin, then came to my bedside every 4 hours during the next three days, day and night, to administer 16 doses of the drug.

Which movie would i recommend to see once in a lifetime?
The Third Man

What role plays art in my life and work?
Every day as I sit down at my workbench, I recite this mantra:
“This is what I do best.”
“This is what I was meant to do.”
“I will find myself in this copper plate.”

My video about Life and Art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRFq5Y74TwY

Who is my greatest fan, sponsor, partner in crime?
A partner in crime? Yes, the late mystery writer Barbara Parker described me in a book as her partner in crime, and I confess to it. Many wonderful people own my prints. I am greatly indebted. I would like to include all of my former students in that group — I am a fan of so many of them!

Whom would I like to work with in 2017?
An expert intaglio printer who could print some of my copper plates.

Which people in my profession would i love to meet in 2017?
The professional experiences of Directors and Curators of museums and galleries are often surprising. At times they must call on extreme strength of character. Many have enriched my understanding of Art and Life in important ways.

What project, in 2017, am I looking forward to work on?
My series “Old Master Engravers” has been underway since 2008 when I published “Albrecht Dürer Engraves His Initials.” It is shown in the video “Evan Lindquist Engraves Albrecht Dürer”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXtCXTuKmR4

Where can you see me or my work in 2017?
My website (http://www.evanlindquist.com/) lists many public collections containing my work. Sales Galleries representing me are The Old Print Shop in New York City, M2 Gallery in Little Rock, and Sara Howell Art Gallery in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

What do the words “Passion Never Retires” mean to me?
I am still trying to teach. Each of my prints contains something that is out of place, ridiculous or impossible, piquing a viewer’s curiosity to look again. Through my prints, I continue to promote my original passion for teaching — “encouraging the curiosity to learn and create.”

How can you contact me?
Email: lindquistevan@yahoo.com
Website:  http://www.evanlindquist.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evanlindquist
YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/c/EvanLindquist