Greg Breda is a self-taught painter who lives and works in Los Angeles. Rendering his figures with lush brushstrokes on vellum, and more recently on silken polyester, Breda’s compositions emanate with light. In lush, verdant settings, the figures appear in harmony with the natural world around them, Breda’s subjects are depicted in states of thoughtful contemplation or meditation, as if pondering truths greater than themselves.Timeless and removed from individual identity or context, the intimately cropped figures are not portraits but harbingers of the potentiality of quietude.