SCULPTURES

at 2260 Oak Bay Avenue

May 3 – 23, 2009

Preview
Saturday, May 2, 2009 10 am -5:30 pm
(work subject to prior sale)

Opening Reception
Sunday, May 3, 2009 1pm – 5pm

Paul Burke has been carving wood for much of his life, but began doing it full-time as a professional artist in 1989, in his home – town of Vancouver. In 1996 he and his artist wife, Anna Gustafson, moved to Salt Spring Island where they eventually built their own gallery, Blue Horse Folkart. Paul’s animal sculptures have been discovered by people from many parts of the world, who have made their way to his rural home and gallery. About this show with Joe Norris he says: "I am proud to be showing here at the Winchester- it represents a new stage in my art career."

" I love to work in wood and my tools give it both shape and expression…my goal is always to be expressive in my sculptures. The marks that my tools make on the surface of the wood then affects the brush as I apply paint and create layers of colour- the knife and the gouge work with the brush in wonderful and sometimes unexpected ways.

In this show I have enjoyed the inspiration of the paintings of Joe Norris and their East Coast subject matter. Though I live on the opposite side of the country and on a different coast, I share his love of coastal life and landscape, and have taken the liberty of translating some of the elements in his paintings into three dimensions!" – PAUL BURKE