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.