"What’s my medium? LIFE!"
For over a decade, Veta McFall built her career as a commission portrait artist known for striking black-and-white realism—meticulous works defined by precision, discipline, and control.
Then, everything changed.
Approaching 40, McFall began to question the role of perfection in her work. What once felt like mastery began to feel like limitation. In response, she abandoned the rules that had defined her success and stepped into the unknown.
The result was The 1985 Series—a collection of 100 large-scale abstract paintings created as a personal and artistic transformation. What began as an experiment became an odyssey: a “spiritual audit” expressed through color, movement, and instinct.
Working without titles, McFall invites the viewer into an open dialogue. Each piece resists definition. Each one asks to be felt, not explained.
Her process is layered, intuitive, and deeply physical—built through repetition, disruption, and release. “There’s no mistakes,” she says. “Every layer matters.”
Today, McFall’s work exists at the intersection of abstraction, memory, and meaning. Her studio is both a workspace and a living archive—where art is not just created, but lived.
Her next body of work, Stories, expands this language further—bringing narrative back into the process, on her own terms.