BIOGRAPHY

A Fine Arts graduate from the University of Toronto, Jane Burns is a Toronto painter/printmaker who has built a reputation for her work. Her work has been shown in Toronto galleries for 20 years.The work is also shown in the U.S and across Canada. It can be seen in the Art Rental department of the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York, in the University of Toronto's permanent art collection and in numerous other collections. (see resume) Jane also lectures and teaches printmaking. She spends summers in her northern studio at Big Bay with her dog Finegan.

..."Experimenting with various papers and printing techniques, Jane produced a succession of powerful and highly sophisticated prints.  As a print maker myself, I could only stand back in admiration. With the printmaking experience under the belt, the artist returned to oil and it is in this medium that the full maturity and authority is manifest. I love the physicality in the current work.  I love the inherent struggle in these canvasses as she does mighty battle with a two dimensional surface.  She takes no prisoners.  If the attack is sometimes brutal, the brutality does not preclude the poetry.  There are areas of colour of such density they almost suck the viewer into the depth without destroying the surface tension and these are juxtaposed with passages whisper thin and lyrical in impact." ... 

Hugh Mackenzie
painter/print maker & instructor emeritus OCAD
November 2006