Tim Burns Creative Practice

Most recently I have been engaged in a project painting portraits of “Women of Colour”. These are inspired in part by a new generation of Nigerian artists and Afro-Caribbean culture in general. They are painted from life and from photographs. This will be the first time I have shown them in public.

Also to be included in my exhibition at The Chair are still life and marine landscapes. These studies of coastal landscape and rock structures in West and North Cornwall  started during an artist’s residency which I enjoyed at Cape Cornwall in 2021.  As with the portraits these paintings are based on observational studies and finished in the studio with the aid of photographs.

The other main thread in my work is still life paintings of marine objects such as shells, pebbles and driftwood picked of the beach but also artefacts from around the home or the contents of my fruit bowl. These still life paintings are done in the studio but often set against a seascape.