Arts Alive! podcast: Artist Neverne Covington

Our guest today in the Arts Alive! studio is longtime St. Petersburg artist Neverne Covington, who has a solo exhibition, Into the Mystic, debuting Saturday at the Morean Arts Center.

She’ll be at the opening reception, 5-9 p.m., which just so happens to coincide with the July Second Saturday ArtWalk.

Covington made a living for many years as a commercial illustrator, drawing, inking and painting everything from book covers to frozen vegetable packages (something she created is probably still on the shelves in your neighborhood Publix, as a matter of fact).

Making art as a purely creative endeavor won out, however, and today she is a prolific producer of oils, watercolors, sculpture, assemblage, drawings and encaustics (painting with dyed hot wax).

Many of her paintings are deeply impressionistic and almost abstract interpretations of the things she sees, hears, feels and experiences. Covington is a believer in the philosophies of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, who famously explored the balance between the conscious and unconscious mind.

All of which leads directly Into the Mystic.

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