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Pamela Burns Paintings

British, b. 1938
Pamela Burns is a British painter. Burns was born in London and now lives in Pembrokeshire. She studied at the Royal Academy Schools until 1963 and later taught at St Martins and Chelsea College of Art, London. The technique Burns uses is engrossing and it is hard not to wonder at how these paintings are made. The marks, as if enchased, in their repeated lines, have an almost hallucinogenic quality - one is fixated by their minute scale. Some have been painstakingly created in reverse, with the background colour revealing the contrasting lines. It is a technique with its own mystery, delicately matching the mysteries of her compositions. Burns paintings from the 1970s and '80s were inspired by the neolithic landscapes of the South West and the deep-rutted fields that lie in the shadows of the Malvern Hills, drenched in the warm greys, endlessly variant greens and deep browns of England's mud-bound cores. In particular, she looked to Maiden Castle, Dorset, and Cherhill in Wiltshire, both sites where the chalky soil had slipped to form narrow parallel ridges along the contours of the landscape. More recently Burns paintings have recorded the changing of the tides, first in Deal, Kent and now in Pembrokeshire. Unlike most coastal painters who tend to look across the surface of the water to the far horizon, Pamela's eye is always drawn back to the shore, to the point where the land melts into the sea. Her paintings record the changing of the tides, as the shore reclaims itself from the water, the parallel striations in the silt holding within their curved lines the imprint of the waves. The tidemarks themselves become a metonym for the process of erosion, a slow revelation of the bones of the land. She has exhibited at the Cairn Gallery in Nailsworth (1990), a formative centre for Land Artists such as Richard Long and Hamish Fulton. The long list of other places she has shown includes the Hayward Gallery and AIA, and solo exhibitions at the Barbican and Tenby Museum.
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Artist: Pamela Burns
Ochre Shore Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015
Ochre Shore Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015

Ochre Shore Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015

By Pamela Burns

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Ochre Shore Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 2015 Additional information: Medium: Oil and sand on board Dimensions: 25.5 x 30.5 cm 10 x 12 in Signed, dated, and titled on the overl...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pamela Burns Paintings

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Board

Traces of Red and Ochre, 1992 - Horizontal Abstract Oil Painting with Sand
Traces of Red and Ochre, 1992 - Horizontal Abstract Oil Painting with Sand

Traces of Red and Ochre, 1992 - Horizontal Abstract Oil Painting with Sand

By Pamela Burns

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Pamela Burns is a British painter. Burns was born in London and now lives in Pembrokeshire. She studied at the Royal Academy Schools until 1963 and later taught at St Martins and Chelsea College of Art, London. The technique Burns uses is engrossing and it is hard not to wonder at how these paintings are made. The marks, as if enchased, in their repeated lines, have an almost hallucinogenic quality - one is fixated by their minute scale. Some have been painstakingly created in reverse, with the background colour revealing the contrasting lines. It is a technique with its own mystery, delicately matching the mysteries of her compositions. Burns paintings from the 1970s and '80s were inspired by the neolithic landscapes of the South West and the deep-rutted fields that lie in the shadows of the Malvern Hills, drenched in the warm greys, endlessly variant greens and deep browns of England's mud-bound cores. In particular, she looked to Maiden Castle, Dorset, and Cherhill in Wiltshire, both sites where the chalky soil had slipped to form narrow parallel ridges along the contours of the landscape. More recently Burns paintings have recorded the changing of the tides, first in Deal, Kent and now in Pembrokeshire. Unlike most coastal painters who tend to look across the surface of the water to the far horizon, Pamela's eye is always drawn back to the shore, to the point where the land melts into the sea. Her paintings record the changing of the tides, as the shore reclaims itself from the water, the parallel striations in the silt holding within their curved lines the imprint of the waves. The tidemarks themselves become a metonym for the process of erosion, a slow revelation of the bones of the land. She has exhibited at the Cairn Gallery in Nailsworth (1990), a formative centre for Land Artists such as Richard Long and Hamish Fulton...

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21st Century and Contemporary Land Pamela Burns Paintings

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Oil, Board

Chalk Sea II - White and Blue Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
Chalk Sea II - White and Blue Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting

Chalk Sea II - White and Blue Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting

By Pamela Burns

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Pamela Burns b. 1938 Chalk Sea II, 2012 oil on canvas 18.3 x 24.3 cm 7 1/4 x 9 5/8 in signed, titled and dated verso Pamela Burns is a British painter. Burns was born in London ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pamela Burns Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Shore Line - Contemporary Grey Abstract Ocean Landscape Painting
Shore Line - Contemporary Grey Abstract Ocean Landscape Painting

Shore Line - Contemporary Grey Abstract Ocean Landscape Painting

By Pamela Burns

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Pamela Burns British, b. 1938 Shore Line oil on canvas 31.4 x 39.1 cm 12 3/8 x 15 3/8 in Pamela Burns is a British painter. Burns was born in London and now lives in Pembrokeshi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pamela Burns Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Receding Tide, Rye - Oil Pastel by Pamela Burns, 1998
Receding Tide, Rye - Oil Pastel by Pamela Burns, 1998

Receding Tide, Rye - Oil Pastel by Pamela Burns, 1998

By Pamela Burns

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Receding Tide (Deal, Kent), Oil Pastel Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 1998 Additional information: Medium: Oil pastel with pencil Dimensions: 25 x 31 cm 9 7/8 x 12 1/4 in Signed,...

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20th Century Pamela Burns Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Slate Shore II Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015
Slate Shore II Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015

Slate Shore II Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015

By Pamela Burns

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Slate Shore II Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015 B. 1938 Additional information: Medium: Oil and marble dust on canvas Dimensions: 25 x 30 cm 9 7/8 x 11 3/4 in Signed, dated, titled an...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pamela Burns Paintings

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Canvas

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