Nature Abstracts

"Because my response to the beauties of nature is very great and very deep, these feelings are bound to come out now and again in my paintings---

just as so often I see figures in spots of grease on a pavement, peeling paint on a wall, rock formations, patterns in linoleum or the abstract lines in one of my paintings..."

Verna Brady, Print and Circumstance Book

I use color, amorphous form and sensuous textures to tickle the Spirit awake and geometric line and structure to pull the flowing movement and patterning into a meaningful composition. Using this dichotomy of the Mind --- the logical, left brain harnessing and guiding the spirited, emotional, right brain --- I continue to probe deeper myteries, however, until the form, color and composition developing in the work somehow come together in a sense of "Rightness" and culminate in an inner esctacy and uplift of the Soul. My intent is to communicate this experience.

Yet , a greater, timeless dichotomy is also addressed: the flowing, pulsing Life Force contrasting the underlying Geometry of the Universe. Somehow these two seemingly opposing forces work together symbiotically to keep Everything in a state of dynamic equilibrium.

An empirical search into these mysteries --- both Without and Within --- is the hallmark of my work. [March 1990]

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