Jane Burns

BIOGRAPHY

Jane Burns is a Toronto painter and print maker with a stellar reputation for her fine works. She is a Fine Arts graduate from the University of Toronto and her works have been showing in Toronto galleries for over 20 years. She has also exhibited in many cities across Canada and the United States. Her works can be seen in the permanent art collection of the University of Toronto, the Art Rental Department of Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, and numerous other private and public collections. Jane lectures and instructs in the art of printmaking. She spends summers in Big Bay at her northern studio with her dog Finegan.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I find my voice with absolute commitment; painting, printing, drawing, gouging/carving, editing and looking again. Extensive sketching on the Bruce Peninsula is the spring board for my understanding of the bones, struts and architecture in the land. Some paintings are conceived from real situations and others are pure imagination. Powerful images brew in my subconscious mind for lengths of time and then explode onto paper. I look for the ironic in the modern world. In this series, I am interested in the power of nature. Planes are caught in a sudden snow storm in "airport confidential". The best layered plans of mice and men run amuck.

This show deals with man's interaction with nature, technology and the built environment. Man's influence on nature becomes nature too. Life is an expression of the co-operation and strife that results. "You can expel nature with a pitch fork yet she will return through another window." Homer

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