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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...

Evening Waterlilies from 2019 and Odalisque 1999.The word "odalisque" is French in form and originates from the Turkish odalık, meaning "chambermaid", from oda, "chamber" or "room". It can also be transliterated odahlic, odalisk, and odaliq.   Joan DelPlato has described the term's shift in meaning from Turkish to English and French:The English and French term odalisque (rarely odalique) derives from the Turkish 'oda', meaning "chamber"; thus an odalisque originally meant a chamber girl or attendant. In western usage, the term has come to refer specifically to the harem concubine. By the eighteenth century the term odalisque referred to the eroticized...

Volley Ball and The Song of the Sirens.Two very different paintings created one year apart.But somehow similar in structure.You can tell though I think that something dramatic had changed in my life. I had a break down, a mental snap.Because I could visualise it in those first few weeks I thought I would paint what I felt was happening in my mind.Naturally I also did the sensible thing and consulted medical help. I was in therapy for two years after that event.   It was very interesting to be able to paint such a unique event.It is one of the...

My Koala and Bushfire painting is nearly finished.I was so pleased to learn that four of the Koalas in my painting are alive, having been rescued by @akaw_hospital in Adelaide.Sadly the other koala known as Lewis was euthanised when they was decided his burns were too serious and he was in too much pain.   I have juxtaposed this new painting with two older works from 10 years ago of the central Australian desert.Voss’s Journey and Red Desert we’re both inspired by a novel by Patrick White “Voss”.The novel is about a Victorian explore who doesn’t accept help from the indigenous population...