Paula Burns is a Midlands based artist and writer. She works with a variety of media, including digital imaging and encaustic wax on textiles.

Paula exhibits with the Tantalus Group and as a solo artist. Images from her exhibitions, ‘Image and Imagination’ (May 2003) and ‘Painting on Snow and Other Things’ (Sept 2004) can be seen on this web site.

Image and Imagination
Image and Imagination explores the theme of inner landscapes. The essentials of landscape; the moon: sun: stars: mountains: valleys and water all figure strongly as archetypal symbols in a series of images, that are a product of imaginative play working through the unconscious.

Painting on Snow and Other Things
The impulse for this series of images was a heavy snowfall in winter. Snow proved to be an interesting medium for painting on with watercolour. The snow paintings were then photographed to produce a digital image.

The emphasis of this series of images is art as play and the potential of abstract art to produce images that mirror the kind of detail in plant, planetary and animal life that is normally captured by telescopic or microscopic imaging.

Self Portraiture
These images are part of a work in progress. Issues of female identity and disability are explored through the childhood game of dressing up.

Work in Progress
For the past year Paula has been working on publishing her novel Blue-Grey Island and putting together a collection of poetry. She is looking forward to producing some new art in 2010.