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Abstract artist Megan Burns creates something akin to dreamscapes, landscapes and imagery seen through a haze of memory and emotion. She describes her paintings as “a process of exploration, a journey, in a sense, into the unknown, with only my intuition to rely upon.” Yet despite the abstraction, Burns looks to her natural surroundings for inspiration. “Living so close to nature has definitely had a direct influence upon my work,” she concedes, “not intentionally as images but as soft geometric shapes, random gestural marks, and layered surfaces.”
Burns’ medium of choice is encaustic, a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax that is fixed with heat after application. Paintings done in this medium possess an aura of mystery and age, a quality that attracts Burns. “I respond to the tactile richness, the sheer beauty and sensuous qualities of encaustic,” she notes. “I am fascinated by the versatility of this medium, which allows me to build up surfaces and reveal only what I feel is necessary through scraping and sheer manipulation of the surface, all adding to an eventual sense of accumulation and the essence of time.”
Burns earned a B.F.A. and a certificate in art education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. During her time at the Institute, she focused on printmaking, painting, artist’s books and papermaking. Burns also earned a B.A. in painting from Western Michigan University and has done additional studies in painting, sculpture and printmaking throughout the United States as well as in Ireland and Brazil. She has been featured in exhibits in Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York and her works may be found in private collections throughout the United States.
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