Born in 1961 in Meridianville, Alabama, Verne Dawson attended both the Cooper Union School of Art and the Art Student’s League of New York in his formative years. He currently lives and works in New York as a painter. His work offers everything from fantastic abstraction to painterly landscapes, exploring the mystical world within our physical confines. Saying of his art, “It's an appreciation of man's place in the world, in the universe and in nature. We're so human-centric […] that we're not terribly aware of things outside of human activity, whereas in the past people were forced to realise their tiny stature in the universe. Now it's as though the universe is hardly there and the bigger picture has been lost. I wanted to make pictures that were really about the bigger picture - painting is about the bigger picture.” (www.recirca.com)