Eva Henneberry was raised in Vienna, Austria in the 1950s. Early influences include her mother, trained as a gold and silversmith and steeped in the "Wiener Werkstaette" art movement, and her father, active in politics and ever active wanting to leave the world a better place. In 1962 she was awarded an American Field Service Scholarship and spent a year in Newport Beach with a wonderful and supportive host family. Shy and eager to please, Eva was overwhelmed by the generosity and hospitality she found in California. Once back home she dreamed of coming back to the US - and within a few years her dream came true, as she was able to go to school in NYC. She spent the next several years going back and forth from the East Coast to Vienna and then, in 1969 made the move to the West Coast. Soon she was caught up in the "back to the land" movement and purchased some land on a large ranch near Garbeville in Northern California. There she built a small cabin overlooking the coast range, off the grid. Motherhood "struck" there as well, when she gave birth her son, Orfeo in the summer of 1972. Orfeo's father, Narcissus Quagliata (of stained glass fame) was then a starving artist. When Orfeo was a little older than a year Eva went back to SF, started premed studies at SF State university, and got accepted into UCSF for the 1976 year. She made her first quilt during Thanksgiving weekend of her first year in medical school. During her residency she met Bill Henneberry, her current husband, and moved in with him in 1981. In 1983 the family (now including stepson Scanlon) moved to Red Bluff, California when Eva was offered the position of medical director of Tehama County Health Center. In 1986 Julian was born, and three years later the family moved to Chico. In 1996 two important things happened: Eva moved into a house where she had, for the first time, a room for her sewing machine to be "up" all the time, and she joined Annie's Star Quilt Guild. In 1997, sadly, Eva's mother passed away, and the following year Eva created "Mormor", her very first " artquilt", a watercolor quilt celebrating her mother's life. After that art became the central focus of her life with all "free" time spent in her studio experimenting with many different techniques and styles. Now that Julian has turned 18, Eva is fully embracing her art carreer - charging ahead, having "illegal amounts of fun" as she puts it. Feast you eyes!