Anthony Verity

Anthony Verity was born in Yorkshire, and following in the
footsteps of his revered icons: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and
Ben Nicholson (at least by marriage), Anthony has been an amateur
sculptor for approximately two decades. He recently began producing
specialized, one-of-a-kind artistic cards. His sculptures and cards
reflect each other in their homage to his Yorkshire icons. Both sculptures
and cards are based in a representational and abstract form. The card
images utilize a combination of line and form, often with minimal
correlation, but provide the viewer with a unique mini representational
landscape. Human forms are rarely used, but an attempt to incorporate
images in a neoclassical or Braque-like style may be observed. His
imagery is often based in the rectangles and circles with varying
bas relief, so easily visualized in Nicholson’s work. Also, the hollow
images of Moore and Hepworth are reproduced in both sculptures and
cards. The three English abstract artists gained much from the modernists
of the early part of the century. Picasso and Mondrian-images are
incorporated unashamedly into the collage formations of the cards.
Landscape and still-life are commonly juxtaposed, often giving distance
to an otherwise monotonous field. In a somewhat separate series, the
abstract motif is heavily influenced by oriental artistic values.
In these images, the juxtaposition of gold, black and red is often
dominant, adding a dramatic statement contrapuntal to the paler Nicholson
images or the manuscript series entitled “Canterbury tablets” or Versalius.
Other abstract images are built around national events such as the
recent Olympics or the Super Bowl. Anthony Verity, MD - Emeritus Professor
of Pathology & Neuropathology was born in Yorkshire in 1931, and educated
at Denstone College, St. Mary’s Hospital, London, Bristol University
and immigrated to UCLA in 1959. He is virtually self-taught as a sculptor
and artist, having attended sculpture classes at California State
University, Northridge (CSUN) under the guidance of Paul Elder. He
has exhibited at CSUN, Los Angeles Physicians Art Society, and in
his local community.