Artist Information:
Alice Burton
Toronto,
Canada
Member Since: Feb 2004
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Artist Statement:
Please view all of my
paintings at
http://www.aliceburton.com
I wanted to paint what the
seasons looked like but also
how they felt. I did not want
to have a series of colour
field paintings starting with
white so in actual fact I
started to almost complete the
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Alice Burton's Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Alice Burton's Portfolio.
Please view all of my paintings at http://www.aliceburton.com
I wanted to paint what the seasons looked like but also how they felt. I did not want to have a series of colour field paintings starting with white so in actual fact I started to almost complete the circle. I found that I had to return to having some recognizable features of the Canadian landscape in my works. I wanted to keep these aspects minimal, relying on the Asian way of the unseen being as important as that which is seen. In studying Asian Art traditions one is struck by the Zen principle of “painting by not painting” of “ knowing how to balance form with emptiness, and of when one has “said” enough.
My works have always had a degree of spontaneity in them resulting in happy accidents. In these works I strived for a combination of chance and control. “Artistic technique is discipline in spontaneity and spontaneity in discipline.” The Paintings were also to give the feeling of the expansiveness of the Canadian landscape to suggest the “marvelous void”, suggested in spiritual terms in Asian works. This is particularly apt when one has studied our landscape after ... |
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