""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 (observation) 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..." - Georgio Agnisola (art historian and critic, Italy)

1995 - Below custom carved signature seal, Dan Dong, N. Korean border crossing: Ai Xuan Zhen (love, outwardly  obscure / arcane : yet inside as the sun). The following is a spontaneous unedited statement of a brilliant private interpreter in China: "In unknown world the comprehension create new enlightenment and connection. Like in realm of freedom you are unity of aspiration and truth as an implication of life. You always in illusory state, but its imagery beauty of universe."- Tsu Tse U.  Let's exercise refinement and some depth. The ancient oriental held the evolved spiritual and human sphere with unlimited aesthetic reach while the self-absorbed post-modern Western world has struggled to utter a word of real and lasting depth if it is there to describe.