Eva Strus
"Growing up in a family of artists, I had an early taste for art and history. I remember spending many a childhood afternoon looking at paintings and imagining all sorts of stories from different worlds and civilizations. This helped me develop my sense of observation, a key to experiencing art. When I’m with my visitors, I try to help them see the details that convey the story of a painting, sculpture or building and the artists behind those creations. An entire world can be hidden in a few details. For me, it’s like seeing things for the first time all over again!"
My favorite peaceful spot in Paris is in the Tuileries Gardens, near Giuseppi Penone's sculpture of an uprooted tree called The Tree of Vowels.
Eva was born in Poland. At the age of 16 she left her country for a career as a fashion model and traveled extensively around the world, settling for a time in the USA, Britain, Italy and Japan. Eva earned her Masters in Art History in Paris in 2008, and then moved across the Channel to London, where she led tours at Westminster and the National Gallery. Paris is now her home, and when she is not leading tours in the Louvre or at the Orsay, she teaches painting and takes photographs. Her first public exhibition of photographs took place in March 2017 in her native Poland.