'As Well As Being' was painted Brendan Stuart Burns in 2002. Brendan attended Faculty of Art and Design in Cardiff where he gained a ‘First Class BA Honours Degree’ in Fine Art between 1981 and 85. In 1987 he gained a Postgraduate Painting from the Slade School of Art in University College London.
His favorite materials to use in his work are oil, wax, graphite on board and using perspex to help create these layers. Using the Perspex allowed him to paint not only above painting but the underside, so the painting has three layers in which allows him to create his abstracts. The French Composer Claude Debussy inspires this piece of work.
Claude is one of the great impressionist composer’s. Impressionist composers would focus on suggestion and atmosphere rather than strong emotion. They did this by using the piano using dramatic use of major and minor scales. La Cathedrale Engloutie that Brendan Stuart Burns created this piece of art to, the music is based on myth of the Cathedral of Y’s.
This says on a calm clear morning it is said that a creature would rise from the sea, with bells chiming, monks singing and sunlight streaming through the window, however Claude Debussy created his own musical interpretation.
Across the room Carl Richards own abstract painting gives his own interpretation actually based on the myth, whilst Brendan listens to the music. He says “Painting is thinking; it is a presentation of what you do not know as well as what you do know. ‘Touch’ within these paintings is crucial.
Each of the tiles he has created have been created whilst listening to the same prelude over and over again until the image was complete, in other words he listened to the same bit of the song over and over again until he was happy with it. La Cathedrale Engloutie music he listened to is quite calm and relaxing really, but the impression I get from the music and the painting as an item together is the typical Welsh weather. The colours he has used are quite natural colours in a sense they are the colours you would find on rocks that had been eroded by the rain. How the rain generally starts of slow, picks up a bit more and slowly fades out.
David Alston review on the Brendan Stuart Burns painting suggests that Brendan is influenced by the welsh landscape and has many pictures and sketches of the coastal foreshores and Headlands.
Brendan’s paintings are generally created using the same mediums although scale can range from something as large as this to hand to elbow sized canvases.
His work has made him one of Wales’ most renowned and prolific painters.
I chose this painting as someone once told some thing along the lines "to me painting is not painting if your recreating something photographic, but something that gives someone's own imagination on the subject, now that’s painting".
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