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Pamela Burns Paintings

British, b. 1938
Pamela Burns is a British painter. Burns was born in London and now lives in Pembrokeshire. She studied at the Royal Academy Schools until 1963 and later taught at St Martins and Chelsea College of Art, London. The technique Burns uses is engrossing and it is hard not to wonder at how these paintings are made. The marks, as if enchased, in their repeated lines, have an almost hallucinogenic quality - one is fixated by their minute scale. Some have been painstakingly created in reverse, with the background colour revealing the contrasting lines. It is a technique with its own mystery, delicately matching the mysteries of her compositions. Burns paintings from the 1970s and '80s were inspired by the neolithic landscapes of the South West and the deep-rutted fields that lie in the shadows of the Malvern Hills, drenched in the warm greys, endlessly variant greens and deep browns of England's mud-bound cores. In particular, she looked to Maiden Castle, Dorset, and Cherhill in Wiltshire, both sites where the chalky soil had slipped to form narrow parallel ridges along the contours of the landscape. More recently Burns paintings have recorded the changing of the tides, first in Deal, Kent and now in Pembrokeshire. Unlike most coastal painters who tend to look across the surface of the water to the far horizon, Pamela's eye is always drawn back to the shore, to the point where the land melts into the sea. Her paintings record the changing of the tides, as the shore reclaims itself from the water, the parallel striations in the silt holding within their curved lines the imprint of the waves. The tidemarks themselves become a metonym for the process of erosion, a slow revelation of the bones of the land. She has exhibited at the Cairn Gallery in Nailsworth (1990), a formative centre for Land Artists such as Richard Long and Hamish Fulton. The long list of other places she has shown includes the Hayward Gallery and AIA, and solo exhibitions at the Barbican and Tenby Museum.
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Artist: Pamela Burns
Oil and Pumice on Canvas 'Untitled (Orange)' Painting by Pamela Burns, 1990
By Pamela Burns
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Oil and Pumice on Canvas 'Untitled (Orange)' Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 1990 Additional information: Medium: Oil and pumice on canvas Dimensions: 45.1 x 76.8 cm 17 3/4 x 30 1...
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20th Century Pamela Burns Paintings

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Canvas

Ochre Shore Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015
By Pamela Burns
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Ochre Shore Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 2015 Additional information: Medium: Oil and sand on board Dimensions: 25.5 x 30.5 cm 10 x 12 in Signed, dated, and titled on the overl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pamela Burns Paintings

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Board

Green Slate Shore I Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015
By Pamela Burns
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Green Slate Shore I Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 2015 Additional information: Medium: Oil and sand on canvas with slates and pebbles Dimensions: 22 x 60 cm 8 5/8 x 23 5/8 in Si...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pamela Burns Paintings

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Canvas

Waves on the Incoming Tide, Oil Pastel Painting by Pamela Burns, 1997
By Pamela Burns
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Waves on the Incoming Tide, Oil Pastel Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 1997 Additional information: Medium: Oil pastel with pencil Dimensions: 21 x 26 cm 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 in Signed,...
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20th Century Pamela Burns Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Receding Tide (Deal, Kent), Oil Pastel Painting by Pamela Burns, 1998
By Pamela Burns
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Receding Tide (Deal, Kent), Oil Pastel Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 1998 Additional information: Medium: Oil pastel with pencil Dimensions: 25 x 31 cm 9 7/8 x 12 1/4 in Signed,...
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20th Century Pamela Burns Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Estuary At Low Tide, Oil on Canvas Painting by Pamela Burns, 2024
By Pamela Burns
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Estuary At Low Tide, Oil on Canvas Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 2024 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 137.2 x 170 cm 54 x 66 7/8 in Signed, dated and t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pamela Burns Paintings

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Canvas

Slate Shore II Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015
By Pamela Burns
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Slate Shore II Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015 B. 1938 Additional information: Medium: Oil and marble dust on canvas Dimensions: 25 x 30 cm 9 7/8 x 11 3/4 in Signed, dated, titled an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pamela Burns Paintings

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Canvas

Green Slate Shore III Painting by Pamela Burns, 2015
By Pamela Burns
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Green Slate Shore III Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 2015 Additional information: Medium: Oil and sand on canvas with slates Dimensions: 31 x 53 cm 12 1/4 x 20 7/8 in Signed, dat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pamela Burns Paintings

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Canvas

Oil and Sand on Canvas 'Traces (II)' Painting by Pamela Burns, 1993
By Pamela Burns
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Oil and Sand on Canvas 'Traces (II)' Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 1993 Additional information: Medium: Oil and sand on canvas Dimensions: 25.4 x 50.8 cm 10 x 20 in Signed, date...
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20th Century Pamela Burns Paintings

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Oil, Sand and Pumice on Canvas-Board 'Traces' Painting by Pamela Burns, 1991
By Pamela Burns
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Oil, Sand and Pumice on Canvas-Board 'Traces' Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 1991 Additional information: Medium: Oil, sand and pumice on canvas-board Dimensions: 51.5 x 64.5 cm ...
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20th Century Pamela Burns Paintings

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Canvas

Burnt Ochre Field, Oil on Canvas Painting by Pamela Burns, 1986
By Pamela Burns
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Burnt Ochre Field, Oil on Canvas Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 1986 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 23 x 80 cm 9 x 31 1/2 i...
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