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ALICE BURTON


                     Lives and works in Toronto, Canada
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        I began a voyage to abstraction after a trip to China in 1998, followed by travels   The result of this process is DOWNRIVER. The works depict   all four seasons
        in India and Japan in subsequent years, totally altered the way I perceived   and were done over the year in the Thousand Islands region of Ontario.  The
        my environment.  Rather than describing a subject, my works progressively   works are inspired by the landscape, and the majesty and never-ending
        focused on colour, line, texture, and the dynamics created through their   movement of the great St. Lawrence river. (Alice Burton)
        juxtaposition. The works formed a condensed visual diary of my travels.
        Inspired by my impressions of Japan – both the importance the Japanese place   “What is most interesting   about Burton’s  series  Downriver,  is  that, in
        on their own seasons and the spare yet eloquent simplicity of much of their   an act of self-conscious introspection, she turned the gaze of the Other
        art and design - I began a new series of works  that reduced the elements   onto herself.  As only a Canadian – fluent in the language of  cross-cultural
        of the Canadian seasons to their bare essentials.I wanted to paint not only   encounter--could, Burton looks at herself and her country from the outside.
        what the seasons looked like but how they felt, to succeed in “the momentary   What she reveals is a country whose visual vocabulary is as diverse as
        capturing of an essence or mood.”  In so doing, I completed the circle of my   its seasons: her painterly style borrows from East Asian calligraphy and
        artistic journey: I found that I had to have some recognizable features of the   the stenciled forms of Indian textiles, conveying a Canada rich in cultural
        Canadian landscape in my works.                          references and confident in its own identity.”
                                                                                                          Ming Tiampo,  Phd
                                                              CITY OF LIGHT I, 2001 MIXED MEDIA AND GOLD LEAF ON CANVAS 48X48 IN. /122X122 CM
                                                                          JOURNEYS II, 2003 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 48X48 IN. /122X122 CM.       



































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