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 (17)
helanker
This is a very beautiful still-life. Wonderful light and colors.
vintorix
According to Balzaq as he writes in Cousine Bette there are two types of great art, first the kind where you do not at once realize that it is anything special, but it grows upon you. And then the other kind where you instantly recognize a masterpiece. Often november22’s works are of the first kind. This picture however belongs to the second ones. Combining abstract and figurative expressions getting the best from two worlds! Notice how the colours are exquisite softened to go with the transparency of the vase. A beautiful and great piece of art.
blankfrancine
A fantastic piece. Colors are extraordinary.
groegnitram
the colours and the light are so wonderful, so calming and delightful to look at and it is so nice to see something from you again :)
Meglaurel
The aluminum gives it both a soft lineal and edge quality just beautiful!
mss
Nice line quality.
jocko500
wonderful looking
anaber
The textures and mixture of colours you did in the background are scrumptious. The transparencies and the luminosity are fabulous.All is very soft and beautiful!I like the thin lines very much! But what i like mostly, is your way of abstraction,and i adore the whites.And i´m glad to "see you"!!:)
ARTWITHIN
Beautiful colors and the light makes this a bright and cheerful image. I love the ink work. I have difficulty viewing this, even with relatively new glasses. The is a blur that disturbs my enjoyment. I feel a strain on my eyes. Other than that, this is a lovely piece that must be stunning in the real world.
november22
Yeah, after a 200:1 compression I fail to re-sharpen. think of it as an anti-thief device.
SecondChoice
beautiful style, very impressive!!
Burpee
Really gorgeous! I love the colors and flow of this one. And, of course, it's flowers :D
waldodessa
Beautiful work of art!
kasalin
This is really gorgeous and very expressive image !!! 5* Hugs Karin :)
anahata.c
I've been catching up on galleries, gallery by gallery (ie not ebots) and so I've been getting to them a few a day. I'm in the Ns today. (Just saw Sir Nikolay!) But I saw your uploads as they went up even when I couldn't use my eyes very well, and I had the same feelings as I had with everything else you've done: I've been fully taken-in by your vision. This truly does have the feeling of photo-manipulation; but as in all your other work, it goes so far beyond it that it looks like a painting as well. The flowers are unusual for what I've seen of yours, because their lines & color-areas are more loosely delineated, like you're improvising and having a great time at it. And this has that inimitable 'Tim' sense of all the activity present in a small patch of life; the understanding of the line inherent in all things, the energy-vectors and delineations of section after section; and you've made something sumptuous and tactile and silken and satiny. It's beautiful tim; the bits of violet in your background and that swath on the left that lacks the background texture, and your treatment of the vase in beautiful long swaths of green & blue-green etc, are splendid touches. A beautiful image which on the surface is 'simple manipulation', but, as in all your work, is immensely rich underneath. I love this. Always a treat to come here, always.
katy555
Spectacular creation and nice work! Fantastic flowers…Fav...
tennesseecowgirl
Truly lovely!