NEVERTHELESS represents the culmination of 3 months of tireless effort, during which time Godly poured all of his strength, passion, and experience into creating a series of paintings that Godly confirms are the best he has ever painted.
Godly's unique style is caught between abstraction and representation. His paintings are never illustrations or portraits of specific mountains, instead Godly is painting the emotional relationship that he has with them. Few artists operate in this way, and Godly is a master at it. In representing his memory, the landscapes are distorted, viewed from experience and gnarled by history, leading the pictures into abstraction. Some, such as Nevertheless #06, are barely disguised brushstrokes that sweep up to the snowy peaks of these imagined alps. In this way, Godly is able to display the most dominant aspects of his surroundings, certain in the impact it will leave on the viewer.
