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  A new series of paintings for the new decade.Creating works about life and mortality within a well travelled art subject like still life and flower paintings allows for a new fresh look. The subject has different inspirations for each age in the history of art. .The end of life as we know it is always a great spur for creativity. As is fear, nostalgia for the past and concern for the future.Beauty and culture are so important.  Humanity feeds on culture, it sustains us through good times and bad. It becomes our major concern when our cultural identity is threatened....

The artist is planning a new painting of her son the Hollywood actor and screen play writer, Laurence Fuller. Having drawn and sculpted Laurence since he was a child coming to see the subject in a new light takes on a new meaning for the artist.     @laurencefuller#portraitsketching #graphiteportrait #laurencefuller #stephanieburns #femaleartist #britishartists #sketchartists #contemplation #portraitdrawings #elysiumverto #aestheticart #artstudy  

“The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it's robbed me of my mother, my wife, and everything that meant anything to me. It's like a germ planted in the skull that devours the brain, spreads to the trunk and the limbs, and destroys the entire body in time. No sooner am I out of bed in the morning than work clamps down on me and pins me to my desk before I've even had a breath of fresh air. It follows me to lunch and I find myself chewing over sentences as I'm chewing...

Imagining the future.Placing different series of my work in juxtaposition with each other.If I could add the sculptures as well that would be amazing.The aerial view painting to the right was finished 2018, the other 2014, the flowers 2018 & 2019 as is the avenue of blossoms.   #stephanieburns #womenartists #largepaintings #imaginedspace #creatingart #curatingart #artcurators #artcurator #londonartist #londonartgallery #londonartscene #flowerporn #artretrospective #futurepotential #artdreams #femalepainter #supportartists #futureprojects #artexhibition2020

Revisiting ideas and wandering around a theme seems enticing after viewing the Picasso and Paper exhibition. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) – originally titled Le Bain (The Bath) – is a large oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet created in 1862Picasso later worked on his own version of a number of genre scenes by other artists of the past.I am interested in creating genre scenes with wildlife and climate change as the subject. Bringing together historical art references to a modern phenomenon.Genre paintings often had a moral tale and and underlying sense of doom for...