‘Brendan Stuart
Burns is one of Wales’ most renowned and prolific
painters. Winner of the National Eisteddfod Gold Medal
in Fine Art on two separate occasions, and Welsh Artist
of the Year in 2000 and 2003, Burns concentrates his
subject matter on the Pembrokeshire coastline, and its
seductive tidal landscape.’ |
‘Burns’ paintings are
built up using layers of paint and wax to recreate the
fascination of nature’s semi transparent world.
His work is as much about the process of painting, and
the almost sculptural wielding of his paint medium,
as it is about the subject matter and finished paintings
themselves.’ |
Emma Williams, Oriel Davies,
Newtown, Wales. 2005. |
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| 'His small paintings are epic entities in themselves.'
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| 'Burns' enterprise and commitment to a landscape stimulus is not without echoes in Ian McKeever, Michael Porter and John Virtue'. |
David Alston, Former Keeper of Art, National Museum & Galleries of Wales,
now Arts Director for the Arts Council of Wales. |
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| 'Burns is a sensual as well as a spiritual approach to painting. One is tempted to gastronomic metaphors in order to completely describe them' |
| 'His works, even the very smallest,have a profoundly contemplative dimension, not repetitive in any degree,they suggest the spiritualism of repeated prayer; a trance like automatism resulting in a transcendent state.' |
| Hugh Adams, Art Critic |
