In late 1996, artist Andrew Lakey commenced an enormously prodigious painting cycle that continued (in its first phase at least) until November 1997, and which resulted in thousands of dazzlingly colorful works of art. What began as a methodological color study using nature icons became an obsessive compulsive journey into a vast and phantasmagoric world of enchanting and utterly original new form factors of botanica and beings detailed in sumptuous color and signature line work.

Andrew Lakey’s extraordinary subjects in Brilliant Nature were derived using an improvisational process employing the unconscious, his memory and imagination. The sheer volume of subjects painted in this collection – including flowers of every type, exotic fish, mythical birds, idyllic animals, magical crickets, psychedelic snails and countless otherworldly flora and fauna – represent a whole taxonomy of an artist’s known and imagined world. Lakey does not simply sample his universe, he exhausts it completely.

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"Pink" (image used with permission, shown at right) by Andrew Lakey. All content and images © 2005 Andrew Lakey, all rights reserved.