About the Artist:

Brenda Bagg was born in South Africa and moved to Los Angeles, California in 1981. She attended the Johannesburg College of Art majoring in Graphic Design and worked as a Graphic Artist in South Africa and the United States for many years.

The influence of her culture and heritage and her attention to detail and design can be observed in her work. Many modern American artists including Charles Demuth, Carolyn Brady, Joseph Raphael, Wayne Thiebaud and Gerald Silva also had a strong influence on the art she produced. What inspired Brenda most about these artists is their brilliance, creativity, honesty, strong sense of design and ability to conquer challenges.

Brenda constantly tried to push herself to the next level and search for new ways to explore and create artwork. She demonstrated that ordinary items are actually wondrous things of beauty. Life and art are challenging but rewarding, simple but complex, fragmented but whole. Her art invites the viewer to experience a heightened awareness and an emotional connection and appreciation of life.

Brenda knew the difficulty of learning how to leverage the behavior of water and the challenges it poses. She also was conscious of the unforgiving aspects of the medium in that mistakes cannot be easily remedied. Her mission was to achieve artistic perfection and that was what motivated her most.

Brenda passed away in April 2005 at the age of 51. She led an engaging life that touched everyone who knew her. She had a rare insight that came from a unique understanding of the essential truth of life. She was deeply spiritual, and possessed a core value system that was compassionate, encouraging, inspiring and above all fair. Her art became the true expression of her feelings. Light and color poured out of her onto empty white pages. Art nourished and enriched her and gave a poetical meaning to her human spirit. She was a talented artist with tremendous insight. She had a pure soul, outstanding decency, a warm heart, and a great sense of humanity.