I have been an artist in photography, video art & performance art, and since 1994 in printmaking showing in regional, national and international exhibits. My work of the last few years has involved the exploration of photography and printmaking as a hybrid medium of expression. The work isn't contained within a genre, although landscape and still life studies dominate, but shows concern with texture, the hand manipulation of the image and surface.Â
  For me photography is another way to create images. My Dad gave me a 35 mm camera when I was 11, as I was constantly 'borrowing' his whenever I could get my hands on it; when I was 13 I entered my first photography contest.
  Later all through Viet Nam and four years in the military I carried a camera - both as a way of interpreting what was happening to me and those around me, and to distance myself from it.
  I exhibited photography off and on until I began a career in cinematography and video in the late seventies and received a Master of Art in 1979 from the University of Missouri-KC. I taught mediated communications at Haskell Indian Nations University and later at Northern Illinois University. By 1986, bored with documentaries and commercial video production and seeking to return to the single image, I started a graduate program in studio art, while keeping my day job of producing educational programs in the arts. I found myself taking addition course-work in photography and worked with traditional printmakers in documenting their workshops and classes.
  Upon gaining my MFA, I a took a course in printmaking, and it was a zen moment in the studio: working the plates, inking, pulling prints. A wholly different tradition of the single image, a completely new toolset for me drew me. This was in 1992, and led to 18 hours of post-grad work with intaglio and relief techniques and many more hours with David Driesbach of Miracle Press who for years was the finest example of a person and an artist I'm sure I will ever know; for over a decade he invited me in to document the activities of Miracle Press and the yearly week long master printmaking sessions - his humor and technical skill shows me the way still.
  In 2002 I picked up a digital camera, mostly to record textures I found in wood, stone, mud, and textiles as references in printmaking, and I started thinking immediately about photography from the point of view of a printmaker.
  So I feel that I finally understand enough about the images that I respond to, and most importantly about the images I need to make, to take the journey as photographer and printmaker. Artistic life is full circle, I'm back to that happy kid seeing things truly for the first time in the view finder and the mind's eye, revealed on the plate and paper.
www.timburns-art.com for other work and background information; this functions as an on-line portfolio for me.
tim
Comments (25)
janedj
Beautiful images and work!!!Hugs Jane
Fidelity2
Hey, it works for me. Thank you. 5+.
amlondono
Pure art ! Ana
Maya06
great work!!! Hugs Maya.
e-brink
Superb image. Great presentation! A wonderful finishing technique.
TravelingWater
Beautiful! That needs to be printed out, framed in the seporate frames, and hung on a wall. Very nice work!
huismus
Beautiful artwork!
Vivienne5
Beautiful!
kansas
This is really beautiful! Excellent presentation.
jocko500
this is wonderful looking
uk601
this is really a wonderful work ! perfect presentation!
figharo
Yes there are so many days, months, years and seasons to our lives... but they all hold together... Beautiful, thoughtful image.
furuta
Beautiful image. excellent work!!
awadissk
excellent work
amota99517
Wonderful work!!!!
Campo-Diaz
Simply fantastic.
tetsu-pino
Very beautiful and nice idea!! Excellent work!!
Mousson
marvelous!
kahshe
Really a beautiful image!!
anahata.c
This piece mesmerizes me. it's partly the division into 6 'screens'—pardon the television image, it just comes to mind—but you've outlined each canvas so that the divisions are vivid and stark. I just love the black around each canvas. But I also love the mix of photo-like and wholly painterly elements in each piece, the sky is 'sky' but wholly painting, for instance; and because of the divisions, we get to see each section as a separate exploration of painterly lights & darks, grays & blues, etc. I can see by now that you do wonderful work with sky-tones and forest tones, your mixes of blues & grays & whites are quite expressive; but here, because they're divided, we get them several times over. It's one of the reasons I love works divided into separate sections. And the tree, arched as if to acknowledge all the parts, extends into white-ish branches that look as if they'd suffered an ice storm—except that here they actually look like light, acknowledging the sky, and are very articulate and ethereal. It's a helluva piece; and I can see why you're is in shows & galleries around the world. A fine piece of painterly art, abstract, concrete and quite dramatic.
Theta
Splendid and precious expression of beauty. Marvelous.
Marinette
PURE ART!
KenyaRose
I love that tree! it does look like the tree of life! My eyes are drawn to the main arms that feel like a human arms so strongly that my eyes are blind to all the other limbs. The bowing of the top of the tree perfectly portrays a head. I guess its also in the action of the tree top bowing that I cannot help but see this tree as a man.Thus for connotations of man = life = tree of life. another 5+ :-)
Meglaurel
your visions behind the scene are to die for when seen together could sit in front of this for hours. Am sure it shows well and someone will fall in love with it and away it will go if not gone already.
stboettcher
wonderful work!! I like the idea of the presentation and the POV/created mood. Bravo!