Diane Burns: Artist, Musician, Human Being. There has never been a time in my life when I didnt draw or paint or sing or play a tune in my head.

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Diane Burns - Artist

Artist, Musician, Human Being
There has never been a time in my life when I didn't draw or paint or sing or play a tune in my head. The creative muses have been alive and well inside of me since I took my first breath. I always wanted to recreate what I observed around me so I set upon a path, at an early age, that would take me into a world of color, shapes, melodies and great creative passion.
I found that after struggling to choose between expressing as an artist or a musician, that first and foremost, I was an artist and that for me there was no distinction between the two varieties. I was both, so I would learn to find a way to thrive as both.
The art of batik, which actually means, "wax painting" was introduced to me in a high school course in art. I found the medium to be a fascinating one and pursued it, determined to master it. I've been practicing it for over thirty years now and I have yet to "master" it. I have, perhaps, along with a very few other artists who also work in the medium, taken it beyond a simple application of wax on cloth and dipping into a dye bath to achieve interesting patterns and color combinations.

Since batik is a method of painting "negative space" I have learned to see the shapes and figures in between shapes and figures. This, I believe, not only develops a strong design sense but is helpful when navigating around a piece of silk deciding where to apply the next color and then the next application of wax.
I have always loved animals and birds. They were amongst the first subjects I chose to paint and the love affair continues. Although I have, through the years, branched out and created batiks of interesting buildings, beautiful landscapes, boat harbors and villages, wildlife art is what excites me most.
A trip to East Africa in '99, which was a dream come true, introduced me to many animals and birds I had only seen in zoos or in books. I will be creating new batiks from that experience for a long time to come.
I love the art of batik more than any other medium that I have played with. There is something very serendipitous and exciting about it. It's as if, while I am using batik to create an image, by it's very nature begins to offer it's own gifts to the piece. Perhaps it is the very spirit of the subject that lives within each finished painting. Or perhaps it is the emotion or memory which is stirred when viewing one. Whichever the case, a work of art is indeed in the eye of the beholder and should, in my opinion, be a source for pleasure for a long, long time.

Thanks to Diane Burns, who has donted 3 of her magnificent owl and bird of prey 'Hoot', 'Hoot 2' and 'Long Earred Owl', personlised signed batik prints. We are going to be Auctioning them to raise some much needed funds as the sanctuary is sruggling financially at this time of year.
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