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Artist Statement for Alice Burton
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Please view all of my paintings at http://www.aliceburton.com
I wanted to paint what the seasons looked like but also how they felt. I did not want to have a series of colour field paintings starting with white so in actual fact I started to almost complete the circle. I found that I had to return to having some recognizable features of the Canadian landscape in my works. I wanted to keep these aspects minimal, relying on the Asian way of the unseen being as important as that which is seen. In studying Asian Art traditions one is struck by the Zen principle of “painting by not painting” of “ knowing how to balance form with emptiness, and of when one has “said” enough.
My works have always had a degree of spontaneity in them resulting in happy accidents. In these works I strived for a combination of chance and control. “Artistic technique is discipline in spontaneity and spontaneity in discipline.” The Paintings were also to give the feeling of the expansiveness of the Canadian landscape to suggest the “marvelous void”, suggested in spiritual terms in Asian works. This is particularly apt when one has studied our landscape after regarding the overworked and crowded landscapes of more ancient and populous countries. In studying our landscape one is struck by the distances, the remoteness, the abundance of trees and water, even now after the amount of industry we have.
The results of this artistic exercise are the paintings in my DOWNRIVER series. They encompass all four seasons and were done over 11/2 years (2003-2004) in my studio in the Thousand Islands region of Ontario. The works are inspired by the landscape in this region , and the overwhelming majesty and never ending movement of the great St. Lawrence river.
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