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 (20)
november22
BTW zoomin should help with detail somewhat.
ArtPearl
This is stunning! I have no idea what aluminium printing is, I'll have to check the forum.
marcopolinski
beautiful!
ARTWITHIN
And there is a quick link on the 2D Graphics Sub-Community page. Tim, this is beautiful and I bet very impressive at the size you have made it. It looks more like a vision of Spring to come, although there is the impression of hoarfrost, with all the lovely colors. I see a field of flowers in this. Beautiful work!
helanker
OHH YEAH! It looks fantastic. Wonderful texture light and colors.
2Loose2Trek
Very nicely done Tim. I'll bet it looks awesome in a gallery.
Gaiadriel
Beautiful!
anaber
Yes,Zoom help to see more and more.So many details and colours ,transparency and contrasts.I Think it looks like earth..I can imagine that blue on the top is the ocean,and an iceland in the left,but if it don´t make sense is because it is short of ways and means....but anyway i´m impressed.This is superb.
jocko500
I got the inkaid to do on some papersi was going to do first to see what what before i go to madel. this is wonderful whgat you did
vintorix
Absolutly stunning colours. And all the others in your gallery are equally breathtaking. Your CV is also impressive. The scope of this site is fantastic from beginners with dolls to established artists. BTW, thank you for the wake-up call about digital pigment -acrylic print. Now I have to buy Epson Stylus Photo R2880 right? I always knew I would get an return on the investment for the hard work of learning high-resolution, :)
ekatz
amazing
anahata.c
Tim, I read your entries in the Forum and found them fascinating and illuminating, though having never done print-work I am really on the outside. But at least it helps me understand a little more of the 'how' of these beautiful works...I respond, however, more from the eye only because I don't know the techniques well enough to appreciate how they play-out in your art... This has much of what you do so well in your art: the sense of seeing at the cellular level, the organic interplay of intimate forms, the way line is constantly moving through and out of its siblings, your way of applying color in organic fashion (multiple cells of color, yet they bleed across each other in various spots to make them feel like growing entities); and the way the piece breaks up in the upper left corner is what drives me speechless in your work—I love its dispersion, its many lines, its delta effect and the feeling of microorganisms sending their tentacles into unknown space to see if its habitable. Wonderful. Is it part of your meditation series (I didn't see it in your description)...doesn't matter in any case, it's another masterful work by you, and that's all that matters.
november22
OOps - yes this is part of the meditation series; actual one of two key works for the show - i'm still preparing the plate for the next image, another large one tho horizontal 34 x 22 inch. Very flattering comments, thanks.
figharo
Beautiful. Sometimes seeing is everything.
Marinette
Amazing!!!:)
blankfrancine
One of your most beautiful. This is really an amazing technique. There really should be a category here of "2d.5,", this is almost 3d.
kirri
I much like this work! Lovely cjlirs and composition!
kasalin
Awesome composition...the colours and flow are superb !!!! 5*
katy555
Beautiful and very creative composition, excellent colors…
SecondChoice
fascinating details!