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JOHN B. BOYLE SCOTT AND ROALD EN NExIRUE OIL ON CANvAS POLYPTYCH 40" x 64.25"
JOHN B. BOYLE PLACE DE LA CATHEDRALE OIL ON CANvAS POLYPTYCH, MOUNTED ON PANEL 47.25" x 63.25"
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GERARD BURNS
One of Scotland’s most respected contemporary artists, Gerard Burn's passion for drawing and painting goes back to his childhood roots. Working with a bold palette and on a large scale his canvases still manage to convey an almost domestic intimacy. Although we are presented with an image that could be described as representational, even photographic, each of the various pictorial elements contains a deeper symbolic meaning; they are intended to provoke an emotional response, a sense of place, and perhaps the feeling that we have been here before.
Born in Glasgow in 1961, Burns graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1983 with a degree in Fine Art. His paintings, most noted for their modern day translations of traditional themes have been collected throughout UK, Canada, Europe and the USA. In 2016 his portraits of Former First Minister Alex Salmond and author Denise Mina were entered into the permanent collection at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and his portrait of politician Margo McDonald was installed permanently in the Scottish Parliament.
