A Feature of Selected Works

June 4 – 30, 2011

Exhibition and Sale Commences Saturday June 4, 10 am – 5:30 pm.

At 2260 Oak Bay Avenue

Jeff Burgess is a practicing visual artist and illustrator with over 25 years experience.  He has exhibited nationally and internationally and his artwork appears in many collections throughout Canada, the US, Europe and Asia.  He also has work in the collections of Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Microsoft, The Alberta Art Foundation and The Calgary Contemporary Arts Foundation.  An honours graduate from the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, he has made Vancouver his home since 1984.

Jeff is on the faculty and teaches in the IDEA program at Capilano University in Vancouver.  As well he is the Visual Arts coordinator for Continuing Studies at Langara College in Vancouver.

“In my art practice, I have focused mainly on representational and figurative work. Recently I have been fascinated with the idea of landscape in a dense urban setting. Taking the pastoral aspect of traditional landscape painting, I have reworked those elements using imagery gathered from intensive research and field trips in areas of interest. I have employed a loose painterly style in oils and gouache to accentuate the beauty in our mundane surroundings, the urban imagery that we see everyday.

Where some landscape painters might avoid the features found in urban l light and shadow on automobiles, glass towers, concrete and metal are as sensual a subject as trees, mountains, lakes and sky to traditional landscape. They can often complement each other in the settings I have created as they ultimately make up the backdrop of any city.”