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Username: studioburke
Member Since: June 2012
Member Since: June 2012
Charlottesville, VA United States
The diversity of the natural world yields a never-ending supply of subjects for my paintings. The lithographs of the early naturalists of the 18 and 19th centuries are a wonderful source of inspiration, Flemish Art as well.
For some reason I never pl...
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| Gender: | Female |
| Artist Statement: | The diversity of the natural world yields a never-ending supply of subjects for my paintings. The lithographs of the early naturalists of the 18 and 19th centuries are a wonderful source of inspiration, Flemish Art as well. For some reason I never place my subjects in their natural environment it seems far more interesting to give them a little of ours. The result is sometimes humorous and , I hope, thought provoking. I often use the style of a formal portrait. There is a dignity in the portrait form , that seems appropriate to representing the beauty of my sometimes strange and always beautiful subjects. Often my subjects appear “caught in the act” by the viewer. What really goes on in the mind of any animal we will never know. So the accessories I put in my paintings which seem to take them into our world sometimes point to just the opposite, how truly they will never be of our world, they will always be aloof and mysterious observers. |
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| Artist Tags: | realist, animals, birds, fantasy, surreal , nature |
