Brendan Stuart Burns
“I try to make paintings which are delicious, a culinary description because the experience of these paintings are multi-sensory, of taste and smell as well as sight”
- Brendan Stuart Burns, 2025
‘‘To feel breath, the wind and space. To be human in the primeval wind, to taste the wind, to shiver. To breathe in memory, thought, serenity, time and contemplation.”
- Brendan Stuart Burns, 2025
Photograph courtesy of Tim Collier Photography
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My work, both past and present, is underpinned by the central themes of absence, isolation, mortality and the spiritual. It is the balance between paint, process and subject matter that has maintained my visual language and its development through what on the surface may seem to have been differing themes. I am grappling with the concept of hæcceity, inscape, thing-ness, essence and the ontological in the way I see a stone, rock-pool or lichen growth.
contact
For all enquiries regarding sales or commissions please contact one of the galleries listed below and for more information about upcoming shows.
Artis Gallery
Auckland, New Zealand
Caldwell Snyder Gallery
California, USA
Osborne Samuel Gallery
London, UK