Montreal-based artist, Verona Leilani Sorensen was born in Montreal to a Filipino nurse and a West Coast Nordic painter. Her earlier years were spent between the Eastern Townships and Mexico.
Verona creates paintings where concrete forms intermingle with elusive space, in an attempt to find balance. She works in an additive and deductive manner, both exploring the influence of time and its effect on surfaces, as well as probing depth through contrasting planes.
After completing her Bachelor in Fine Arts, she was invited to apprentice with the ‘Dormice’ art collective in Austria and Italy. Her technical approach of blending wax, sand and oil into her paintings matured in Mexico, where she studied encaustic painting. Sorensen currently lives and works in Montreal. |
