Seeing as his art sparked a few discussions with my parents (in which I was supposedly being defensive...), lets look at the art of my tutor (or ex-tutor now, sad times), Brendan Burns. Now truth be told, I'm not a huge fan of abstract art, or usually the stuff that Brendan produces, but for some reason (maybe it's because I know the man, have seen the beach that is his inspiration etc.) I'm always truly absorbed by his work.
Liquid Light Series, Swishback (SM:862171. January 4th 2007)
Oil, wax and graphite on board
His main inspirations for his long series of 'coast' paintings is Druidston Haven, on the Pembrokeshire Coast, a beautiful place. If you ever go there, you feel even more of a connection to his paintings, they click into place and really do convey the acrobatics that your senses fly through while you are there.
Let me just have a quick diversion and say that his 'Liquid Light' and 'Taste of Sight' series are my favourites. Maybe their names are subconsciously playing to my love of literature and words... He likes his synaesthesia does Brendan, we had a (kind of) tutorial on it with him near the start of our specialism before our Ex Motus brief. We watched this slightly crazy video called 'Orange Sherbet Kisses' where this woman had all sorts of reactions to music, it truly was weird. Although I did find out from that video that Vladimir Nabokov was a synesthete, which fascinated me as his words are actually always so colourful and bright when you read them. Anyway, I'm divulging from the point! I do apologise about this by the way, you may get a series of ramblings from me quite a lot.
Back to the art work, I just want to reach out and touch it, feel it, squidge it. It brings out your internal compulsion towards the sea and everything linked with it. When you view the work, you can smell the salt, see the shadows, you are ever so tempted just to dip your feet in. His paintings aren't all about what you 'see', it's about what you feel, he tackles (and is quite successful in it if you ask me) the idea of trying to convey a feeling in the physical. He gives the conceptual a physical form.
As a little side note, when I tackled a piece of art inspired by the same beach I looked at the diversity of colour within the beachscape. There really is an abundance of everchanging colour within the coast, everytime the sun moves, or a cloud drifts across its rays the colours will dramatically change, it's truly amazing when you notice the little things like that.
So anyway, I think I've gone on long enough really, check him out: http://www.brendanstuartburns.co.uk/home.htm
If you ever have the pleasure of being taught by him, he is inspirational, he makes you laugh, you never want to do anything to disappoint him, he constantly challenges you and has a tendency for cheesy metaphors such as 'keeping the boulder moving' and 'you have the cupboard built, now you need to buy the ingredients', I'm sure he's also come up with 'today we are walking, tomorrow we dance', so in short he is the best tutor ever. He is the magic. I'm really going to miss him. Gah, a great start, getting me all upset!
Stick to the barnacles!
p.s. If you really like his work, buy his book:
Let me just have a quick diversion and say that his 'Liquid Light' and 'Taste of Sight' series are my favourites. Maybe their names are subconsciously playing to my love of literature and words... He likes his synaesthesia does Brendan, we had a (kind of) tutorial on it with him near the start of our specialism before our Ex Motus brief. We watched this slightly crazy video called 'Orange Sherbet Kisses' where this woman had all sorts of reactions to music, it truly was weird. Although I did find out from that video that Vladimir Nabokov was a synesthete, which fascinated me as his words are actually always so colourful and bright when you read them. Anyway, I'm divulging from the point! I do apologise about this by the way, you may get a series of ramblings from me quite a lot.
Back to the art work, I just want to reach out and touch it, feel it, squidge it. It brings out your internal compulsion towards the sea and everything linked with it. When you view the work, you can smell the salt, see the shadows, you are ever so tempted just to dip your feet in. His paintings aren't all about what you 'see', it's about what you feel, he tackles (and is quite successful in it if you ask me) the idea of trying to convey a feeling in the physical. He gives the conceptual a physical form.
As a little side note, when I tackled a piece of art inspired by the same beach I looked at the diversity of colour within the beachscape. There really is an abundance of everchanging colour within the coast, everytime the sun moves, or a cloud drifts across its rays the colours will dramatically change, it's truly amazing when you notice the little things like that.
So anyway, I think I've gone on long enough really, check him out: http://www.brendanstuartburns.co.uk/home.htm
If you ever have the pleasure of being taught by him, he is inspirational, he makes you laugh, you never want to do anything to disappoint him, he constantly challenges you and has a tendency for cheesy metaphors such as 'keeping the boulder moving' and 'you have the cupboard built, now you need to buy the ingredients', I'm sure he's also come up with 'today we are walking, tomorrow we dance', so in short he is the best tutor ever. He is the magic. I'm really going to miss him. Gah, a great start, getting me all upset!
Stick to the barnacles!
p.s. If you really like his work, buy his book:
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