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Verne Busby - Biography
Verne Busby has lived and worked most of his life in Edmonton, Alberta. He received his BA in 1972 and Secondary Education Teaching Certificate in1974 from the University of Manitoba. In 1975 he received his permanent British Columbia secondary teaching certificate. Returning to Edmonton he furthered his design experience with studies at Grant McEwan College Design Arts (1977) and the University of Alberta.

In 1981, after several years of agency experience in Edmonton, Verne Busby joined Bella Totino in Totino Busby Design Inc., an independent design and illustration studio. Art and design talent at Totino Busby has attracted a wide range of clientele.
Verne has taught part time at the University of Alberta Faculty of Art and Design, Visual Communications. Verne also moderates life drawing sessions biweekly at the Edmonton Wecan Society, Harcourt House Annex.

Artist Statement
'The landscape, or in this series, the abstracted landscape, is the content focus of this new group of paintings for sopa. The western landscape contains an endless source of inspiration for me. I have chosen here to imagine a timeless interplay of shapes and colors that could have been viewed in the warm light of the morning or evening in the springtime. The scenes imagined show an untouched world before it is carved up of disfigured by the machines of the last century. The last remaining patches of snow or light could be metaphors for a disappearing season in the midst of renewed spirit.'