GLOUCESTER ROOM
An exhibition of paintings in oil on linen 6 – 30 November 2023
GLOUCESTER ROOM
5 New Cavendish Street London W1G 8UT Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm
020 7935 1114 info@gloucesterroom.com
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“My work is not abstract in a formal sense but it has enjoyed a relationship with ambiguity; it is concerned with inner emotion and the sensed experience of the viewer; it is about the contemplative experience of self-reflection. All my work has endeavored to present the clarity, yet simultaneous abstraction of a ‘peripheral’ experience: the afterimage burnt onto the retina, something which is both precise yet ambiguous, fixed yet transitory, permanent yet ephemeral.
I aspire to celebrate nature’s ability to seep absorbed light, almost as liquid colour when dusk sets. These works ‘represent’ that connection with our natural world, the most simple and fundamental of human experiences: they give one time to breath. The sculptural encounter with the painting engenders the consistent underlying melodic
whisper of the spiritual that has developed in my work. To breathe in memory, thought, serenity, time and contemplation. When I ask myself once again, what is the point of making? What does my work do? The point is quite simply to create a work, which allows thought itself to breathe.” - Brendan Burns, 2023 Brendan Stuart Burns was born in 1963; he currently lives and works in Cardiff. He studied Fine Art at Cardiff College of Art (1981 – 1985), and undertook a postgraduate in painting at The Slade School of Art, University College London (1985 – 1987). Burns has exhibited both Nationally and Internationally,
including America, France, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Spain. His work is held in numerous private and public collections including The National Museum & Galleries of
Wales, The Derek Williams Trust, The Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Contemporary Art Society of Britain (Tom Bendhem Bequest), America, Australia, China, Holland, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and The United Arab Emirates. Opposite: Rhapsody II, oil and wax on linen, 150 x 170 cm
Flare Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 100 x 120 cm
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Autumnal Bloom Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 160 x 175 cm
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Tidal Shimmer I & II Oil and wax on linen
Diptych Total dimensions: 200 x 320 cm
Each panel: 200 x 160 cm
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Tidal Shimmer I & II Diptych
Total dimensions: 200 x 320 cm
Tidal Shimmer I – (Left hand panel)
200 x 160 cm
Tidal Shimmer I – (Right hand panel)
200 x 160 cm
Bloom Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 140 x 170 cm
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Groan Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 90 x 110 cm
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Kito Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 130 x 200 cm
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Kito 130 x 200 cm
Graze Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 45 x 55 cm
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Tender – Point Lobos Lichen Oil and wax on linen
Diptych Total diptych dimensions: 150 x 240 cm
Each panel: 150 x 120 cm
This painting is available for purchase as a diptych or as individual paintings
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Tender – Point Lobos Lichen Diptych
Total dimensions: 150 x 240 cm
Tender – Point Lobos Lichen (Left hand panel)
150 x 120 cm
Tender – Point Lobos Lichen (Right hand panel)
150 x 120 cm
Rhapsody II Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 150 x 170 cm
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Tidal - Seep Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 160 x 200 cm
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Sizzle Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 90 x 110 cm
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Waterlily Dapple Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 130 x 200 cm
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Fold Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 45 x 55 cm
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Ice Lagoon - Crack Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 45 x 55 cm
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Swaddle Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 45 x 55 cm
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Thrive Oil and wax on linen Dimensions: 45 x 55 cm
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WORKS IN OIL ON LINEN
Brendan Burns’ collection of works in oil are available for acquisition on receipt of this catalogue Artworks are shown unframed in this catalogue but a bespoke framing option is available. Please contact the gallery for examples.
To enquire about prices, reserving or acquiring any of the artworks, please call the gallery on 020 7935 1114 or email info@gloucesterroom.com. Dimensions are quoted in cm, shown height x width.
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