This is a temporary Gallery page with some of her works while we work on a more complete Gallery in various media and various time periods of her work.

So please check back later of you are interested.

Trinity

This painting is a representation of Verna's relationship with the Trinity. The upper left contains her symbols for the Father/God (light entering from above) which we see represented in many of her paintings, and the Cross, representative of Jesus. The "waterfall" represents the Spirit which flows through our lives.

Sounding 1975

This painting is featured in Verna's lecture where visually goes through the process of creating the painting. It is also further featured in her book.

Circe 1974

Also featured in Verna's lecture, she used this painting to illustrated how artists work from all sides of a painting. (Please see lecture link.)

Capriccio 1974

Featured in lecture, illustrating the hand of man in nature. Nature is shown as the free-flowing organic forms, and man's influence is seen as the straight line. In her lecture, she discusses how from a plane you can see the influence of man on the landscape by the linear quality, rather than the organic flow of Creation. Please see the lecture and her book for further discussion.

Apollospire 1969

Verna's husband, and love of her life, Hugh Brady, was heavily involved in the Apollo program, being program director of the guidance system. Their shared experiences of exploring inner and outer space gave birth to a series of paintings expressing different aspects of this experience emotionally. She also writes extensively of it in her book. There is another painting, "Footsteps on the Moon" featured on the lecture page.

The Fifteenth Station 1988

In Verna's book, this painting is accompanied by several pages out of her personal journal where she expressed the agony and joy of creating this piece, deeply spiritual in symbolism and meaning for her in her life. This is an incredible look into the inner workings of an artist's mind and spirit as she struggles with expressing her inner life.

[To order this book, go to the book pages.]

Verna's watercolors

Phoenix #45 1986

Verna's unique watercolors, mostly figurative, are quite extraordinary. This is an example of this line of her work. This piece, named after the legendary bird who rises from the ashes, is, like nearly all of Verna's work, characteristic of her inner struggle and rebirth. This was a return to the figure as an expression of the inner life force emerging from this fluid medium. "The resultant sense of arrested motion [of the unique process she was using in watercolors] seems to communicate a feeling of some mysterious and dynamic force at work. Even though the figure began imerging from this captured energy, the Life Force and its powerful influence on all things has remained my dominant theme." p. 96 "My Search for the Real"