Virginia Bradley is a distinguished American contemporary, abstract painter. Her research into natural phenomena, and geological and oceanographic formations serves as a starting point for her abstract works. Like an alchemist, she transforms the work through the use of diverse materials and physical acts. Virginia adds and subtracts into the painting surface by pouring paint, sanding, drawing, and printing while simultaneously experimenting with chemical reactions to the surface. Thus her studio becomes a laboratory for experimentation, an athanor for the interaction of diverse materials.