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The starting point for Burgoyne’s paintings is our relationship and conflict with the sea. |
The starting point for Burgoyne’s paintings is our relationship and conflict with the sea. He
takes the disarray, sense of displacement and impermanence suggested by
the structures and found objects in this context as a metaphor. This is
reflected in the subtitles for the new work –‘Undercurrents’ and
‘Beginnings and Endings’.Burgoyne wants to convey the emotional states and the experience, which the objects and structures found in this shifting landscape speak of. This setting changes constantly: we escape to the coastal landscape for leisure and contemplation, yet it is also a place of work and survival with an unremitting, elemental and corrosive force.
The aims of Burgoyne’s working practise exceed any pictorial concerns. The paintings are a response to a location, all it contains and which exists, but when they ‘work’ it is because they bring to life the internal sensations found in this environment and its contents, that were the stimulation in the first place. Consequently, the resulting paintings become independent of source and take on a life of their own between the real and the imagine.
