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 (13)
alpha102039
scarry cool
helanker
A very beautiful Image. I like the colors the gloss and the texture.
RocksLady
Klasse 5++++++
ARTWITHIN
There is a lot of intuitive energy at work there. You have a very active inner eye. I like the glow and radiation of the eye that give it the dynamism that is so evident in your image, Tim. Wonderful work, as are all in this series.
vintorix
november22 is probably the most innovative painter at Rendorosity with an uncanny sense for colour and shape, one who understands and has studied for years how to place arrange elements with extraordinary control and effect. Form, line and color. Never weak, always strong. In this painting for instance hot red, representing danger, the colour of blood is juxtapositioned with cool blue, the colour of relax and detachment. Like a true artist he spends 11 months on a work, while we others (including yours truly) throw something together in a day or two. There is only one thing I don't understand, what is the purpose of the rectangle slightly to the right of the center? Also I wish he could tell us a little more of the process BEFORE the print. And is it really an eye? ?
anaber
I looked at it once or more,and i decided to change something in my view: This "eye" appears to me like a heart.Inside is visible a struture like a window,that looks like a relation with the exterior and all is swimming in an aquous medium of blue with so many strocks, like veins, giving life around . Over the image i can see a subtil textute of glass.Two beautiful colours.I do love it.Great artwork just like the others.
anahata.c
(I always zoom, always...and if you're interested, RR displays full-view for any image that's 700 pixels or less in width, no matter how tall. If it's 701 or larger—in width—then it displays a smaller version and one has to zoom for the full-size. Just thought you might be interested...) Vintorix really gave you a great compliment, I agree. And I understand how some would wonder about the rectangle. But seeing that half my art has unexplained visitors, I love it. It's up my alley for sure. I don't even know how to verbalize the rest: It looks like it's carved out of some kind of plastic, it has a very tactile feel; the eye can be a heart too (agree with Ana) or just a place of intense open activity, an island in the midst of this sea. (maybe a 'sand bar'!). It also has a shell-like feel, something crawling & alive, and the whole piece is 'woven' in interlacing weaves with lights & darks, and I can see the eye and a cornea; but also a creature & above all an organic entity with its own life & path. A fascinating work, multilayered and yet very much on the surface—moreso than many of your others—which invites us to touch and feel. I know artists must move on, and eventually you'll leave this series. But it's a terrific series, with many views of meditation (which includes, btw, actual "sitting" as well as the state of mind achieved even when we're not sitting): You give new vistas & meanings to the act with each image...
figharo
Sometimes less is so much more. To-the-point beauty.
kasalin
A very original work of art !!! 5* Excellent done :):):)
jocko500
super cool loooking
Marinette
A very beautiful Image.:)
tetsu-pino
Impressive image!! Great creawtive work!!
JackSprat
The red and blue equal great beauty.