Colour, movement, texture. Design and composition with perspectives that redefine landscape painting in a modern, contemporary fashion. Vern Simpson's style is an abstracted expressionism which avoids literal realism. A flick of paint to give the feeling of grass in the wind, inscribed marks and scrapings that suggest landscape elements. An intuitive placement of paint which reflects the forms and forces, that create the visible contours and artifacts of the landscape, conveys a more emotional essence.

Vern's home base is the Pacific Northwest, his studio facing south to the American San Juan Islands from the Canadian Gulf Islands. No stranger to the dry side of the mountains, his early years were spent on an orchard in sagebrush-country. On scholarship to Mexico, he completed a large acrylic mural depicting the birth of the Independence movement. Today Independencia is recognized as part of that nation's cultural heritage.

In Vancouver's historic Gastown, his larger-than-life copper statue of Gassy Jack pays tribute to that city's first entrepreneur: a saloon-keeper. Vern exhibits paintings in selected galleries from the Seattle / Vancouver area, to Florida's Gulf Coast. His painterly artwork has found a growing audience on an international scale. His oil paintings, from first showings at Art Expo in New York 10 years ago, are now found in colections in London, Singapore, Sydney, and throughout the US and Europe. In his native Canada, he is represented in boardrooms and corporate venues, as well as private residences, from coast to coast.