Gerard Burns
One of Scotland’s most respected contemporary artists, Gerard Burns passion for drawing and painting goes back to his childhood roots. Working with a bold palette (and on a massive scale) his canvases still manage to convey an almost domestic intimacy, possibly because he paints what he knows. Although we are presented with an image which could be described as representational, even photographic, each of the various pictorial elements also contains a deeper symbolic meaning. Whether it is wolves prowling around the legs of a small girl, a pinstriped figure on a highwire suspended above a city, a young woman standing at a water’s edge, or a child leading a black horse through a winter wilderness, each combination is intended to provoke in the viewer an emotional response, a sense of place, a feeling almost that we “have been here before”. In essence, that the whole becomes far greater than simply the sum of its parts.
Available Artwork
Girl with Red Maple Leaf
- Oil on Canvas
- 28 x 28 in
- 2020
- CAD $8000.00
This Winter Journey
- Oil on Canvas
- 40 x 48 in
- 2020
- Price available on request
A Look from the Wings
- Oil on Canvas
- 23.5 x 15.75 in
- 2020
- CAD $3500.00
Dancer
- Oil on Canvas
- 23.6 x 15.7 in
- 2020
- CAD $3500.00
Over Loch Ard
- Oil on Canvas
- 36 x 48 in
- 2019
- CAD $14000.00
Highlands
- Oil on Canvas
- 31 x 31 in
- 2019
- CAD $9500.00
Windfall
- Oil on Canvas
- 32 x 32 in
- 2013
- CAD $15500.00
Playing with Fire
- Oil on Canvas
- 32 x 32 in
- 2013
- CAD $16500.00
Let it Rain
- Oil on Canvas
- 36 x 48 in
- 2013
- CAD $23000.00
Girl with Maple Leaf 2
- Oil on Canvas
- 24 x 24 in
- 2013
- CAD $6500.00
Angel
- Oil on Canvas
- 20 x 20 in
- 2013
- CAD $5500.00
Small Mercies
- Oil on Canvas
- 40 x 40 in
- 2013
- CAD $19000.00
Mixed Blessings
- Oil on Canvas
- 40 x 40 in
- 2013
- CAD $19000.00
The Forrest
- Oil on Canvas
- 39 x 47 in
- 2012
- CAD $14500.00
Angel
- Oil on Canvas
- 38 x 38 in
- CAD $14000.00
My Father His Father and I
- Oil on Canvas
- 31 x 31 in
- CAD $13500.00
Exceptional Sales
Balancing Act
- Mixed Media
- 45 x 45 in
- 2020
- Sold
A Winter's Journey
- Oil on Canvas
- 40 x 40 in
- 2019
- Sold
Lochside
- Oil on Canvas
- 27 x 27 in
- 2019
- Sold