Verdant Visions: works by Yva Neal

Verdant Visions is a collection of works that explore our connection with nature and how it affects our psyche thru interaction.  Each piece uses natural materials and invites the viewer to have a relationship by either misting the moss or stacking the rocks. In this digital world, we find ourselves “ungrounded”. The contact these pieces provide help trigger body memory of being out in nature.

Yva Neal (b.1973, England) recently moved to Riverside, IL. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her 20-year career in product design, visual retail design and landscape design realizes a dense and multi-disciplined skill set.  She has had a studio at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago’s Bridgeport Neighborhood for the past ten years. Her work has been included in various group exhibitions nationally at Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, Art Basel: Miami, Telluride, CO, and on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Her current focus, creating awareness through interaction, stems from her forays into studying plant medicine, mycology and motherhood.