Virginia Shepley is an abstract painter using line drawing and biomorphic forms as a visual representation of fundamental spiritual ideas. Virginia received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from JFK University’s Arts and Consciousness Program in 2001. Inspired by Eastern philosophies, she explores unity and duality on paper as a parallel to human experience; reflecting our struggle to find a place of balance. Over the last decade, her work explores the connections and borderlines between physical reality and the invisible.
Shepley’s work has been shown in solo and group shows in galleries in California and North Carolina. Her drawings and paintings are in private collections around the world. She has been featured in several publications including All She Makes, Carolina Muse, and The American Scholar. Shepley has attended residencies at the Lucid Art Foundation, The Art Farm, and the Atlin Art Center. Virginia lives and works on a farm in North Carolina.
My work is a study of the human experience of the divine. Inspired by Daoism, I explore unity and duality in abstract form as a metaphor for the human struggle to find a place of balance. I aim to reconcile fundamental opposites found in the physical world by bringing the extremes into harmony. Without opposites, we cannot understand the whole. It is through their balance and unification that we find the center.
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