When Glenna Evans moved into a 1890 Victorian home, she discovered many “forgotten treasures,” from old encyclopedias and medical books to windows, doors, and screens.

“Abandoned, their value and beauty were masked by layers of dust,” says Evans. “I wondered what stories they could tell.”

Glimpses of Memory, her series of photographs of those treasures, is featured in the Griffin Museum at the Aberjona River Gallery in Winchester, MA, January 21 through March 28. An opening reception with the artist at the Aberjona Gallery is February 2, 6-7:30 PM.

The pictures in this series are modern, mixed-media frescoes. Classic frescoes were created by applying paint onto fresh wet plaster. Evans has been perfecting a technique of “printing” photographs onto wet plaster. The resulting pieces have the same textures and irregularities as a fragment of an old fresco.

“I capture the images with a 35-mm digital camera using natural light. A specialty lens is used to enhance the dreamlike quality,” Evans says. “The images are pigment ink printed onto a plastic substrate. Then the ink is transferred onto a wet, handmade plaster board to enhance their aged, worn character. They are finished with varnish and wax.”

“Glenna Evans´ use of the fresco to print her photographs is an interesting device that intersects time and memory,” says Paula Tognarelli executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography.

Evans grew up on a farm in southern Illinois. She became comfortable with urban life living in Chicago for almost 18 years, where her first career was as a hairstylist on Michigan Avenue. She received a bachelor of arts degree in photography from DePaul University School for New Learning in Chicago in 1994. She also attended the Photography Atelier, a course for advanced photographers, at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Evans moved to New Hampshire in 2005.