'Kupala - Portrait of Irina'

Title:	'Kupala - Portrait of Irina'
Genre:	Unpublished Art
Mediums:	Acrylic
For Sale:	NFS
Views:	2499
Posted:	11/28/2016
Status:	Unpublished

Projects: I have a few quite large-scale projects currently in progress.Some are commissions whilst others are personal. Of these latter, one is based on a Keats poem - 'Isabella, or The Pot of Basil' and which I'm calling 'Poor Lorenzo', another called 'Song to the Moon' and which is inspired by the story of Rusalka and in particular the Dvorak opera of that name. A third personal piece is based on the song 'The Garden of Jane Delawney' by late 1960s English electric folk group, Trees. Commissions include a large piece based on A Game of Thrones and also a 'SpaceBabe' painting for a U.S. collector. Some pencil work - drawings of mythological creatures are underway..steadily building up a collection of those. I'm moving slowly away from commercial work - which was mostly bookjacket work in my case - as this territory has been commandeered largely by a brilliant new generation of 'digitally savvy' artists..and whilst I do the occasional digital piece my preference is for painting and in particular I'd like to produce more, large scale personal paintings - wiith maybe a shift away from acrylics on board towards oils on canvas. My retrospective collection 'The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal' was published in the UK by Titan Books in Septemebr 2014.

This painting was commissioned by Pat Robinson. It is a portrait of his wife, Irina. Irina is Russian and so I thought to depict her in the garb of the Festival of Kupala which is held annually in Russia. Amongst other things it is a festival of ' fertility' and ' fruitfulness' ...hence the appropriate background details!
High quality giclé e prints of this painting are available.