"The essential aspects of the artistic experience of Brian Averill are, in my view, divided up into two areas.The first is marked by abstract and informal experimentation that motivates both his aesthetic and spiritual life. The quintessence of his artistic message, being without reference to the concrete or the figure, finds its source in primordial depths. The second aspect is directly linked to the first and concerns the probable and perceptible confrontation between visual art and music. Averill is also a musician, something reflected in the visual characteristics of his works. Relative to the language of Averill, a triangle can be imagined, its base founded upon music and visual art. At its summit a spiritual tension is both the source and horizon of his expression..."  - Giorgio Agnisola, Art Historian & critic, Italy  (...reflecting on a series of paintings following collaborations with Gong Tie Gong, a Beijing painter/calligrapher in the Brussels studio)

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