CURRENT EXHIBITION Annual Winter Group Show PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS White Slate Out of the Green Push>Back: Oil on linen & Monoprints Shifting Season Gallery Artists'07 Oil Paintings and Woodcut Prints BIOGRAPHY Jane Burns was born in 1949 in Owen Sound, Ontario. She is a painter/printmaker who now lives and works in Toronto and Owen Sound. Jane completed a fine arts studio degree at University of Toronto. For over twenty years, she has exhibited her works in cities across Canada and the United States. Beginning with paintings in watercolour completed outdoors on the Bruce Peninsula, she now paints powerful oil canvasses which exhibit her full maturity as an artist. She easily moves from the figurative to the abstract. A colleague, Hugh Mackenzie says of the work, " I love the physicality in the current work. There are areas of colour of such density they almost suck the viewer into the depth and these are juxtaposed with passages whisper thin and lyrical in impact." Art Critic, Gary M. Dault observes, "an impressionistic authority and painterly joie de vivre". Jane's work is in many permanent collections such as University of Toronto Art Center, Carleton University Art Gallery, Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation, Albright-Knox Collectors Gallery as well as corporate collections including Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising Inc. ARTIST STATEMENT I find my voice with absolute commitment; painting, printing, drawing, gouging/carving, editing and looking again. Extensive sketching on the Bruce Peninsula is the spring board for my understanding of the bones, struts and architecture in the land. Some paintings are conceived from real situations and others are pure imagination. Powerful images brew in my subconscious mind for lengths of time and then explode onto paper. I look for the ironic in the modern world. In this series, I am interested in the power of nature. Planes are caught in a sudden snow storm in "airport confidential". The best layered plans of mice and men run amuck. My work deals with man's interaction with nature, technology and the built environment. Man's influence on nature becomes nature too. Life is an expression of the co-operation and strife that results. "You can expel nature with a pitch fork yet she will return through another window." -Homer CV EDUCATION 1991        Bachelor of Arts Degree (Fine Arts Studio), University of Toronto 1970        York University, Year One 1986        Ontario College of Art and Design 1986        Toronto School of Art SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008        Leonardo Gallery, Toronto 2006        Leonardo Gallery, Toronto 2004        Prince Arthur Fine Arts, Toronto 2003        Sunbury Gallery, New Brunswick 2001        Prince Arthur Fine Arts, Toronto 2000        Gallery 7, Toronto 1999        Gallery 7, Toronto 1997        Illuminary Art Gallery, Toronto 1993        Gallery Rochon, Toronto (2 person) 1990        Gallery House Sol, Georgetown 1988        Gallery House Sol, Georgetown 1987        Kensington Place Gallery, Toronto 1986        Here and Now, Toronto SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008        Leonardo Gallery, Gallery Artists, Toronto 2008        Washi Summit, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia 2008        A.I.R. Gallery, New York 2008        Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo 2007        Leonardo Gallery, Gallery Artists, Toronto 2007        Open Studio, Toronto 2006        Albright-Knox Museum , Buffalo 2005        A.I.R Gallery, New York City 2005        Turquoise Gallery, Toronto 2004        MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie 2003        Prince Arthur Fine Arts, Toronto 2002        Prince Arthur Fine Arts, Toronto 2000        International Miniature Show, Toronto                 Art Auction for Pouch Cove Foundation, Toronto 1999        Gallery 7, Toronto (Spring, Summer)                 River Gallery, New York 1998        Carthew Thompson Gallery, Los Angeles 1996        Eco-bitions, Deleon White Gallery, Toronto 1994        Reif Gallery of Contemporary Canadian Art, Niagara on the Lake 1993        Gallery House Sol, Georgetown 1991        Art for Preservation, Market Gallery, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, COLLECTIONS University of Toronto Art Centre University of Toronto Art Collection Carleton University Art Gallery Collection Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising Inc. Gallery Lambton Permanent Collection Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation of Toronto TEACHING Avenue Road Arts School Harbourfront School by the Water Royal Ontario Museum (R.O.M) – printmaking (on-going) Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery Toronto Board of Education University of Toronto (Arts Week Demo) Woolfitt’s RESIDENCIES Pouch Cove Foundation Newfoundland Old growth forest camp for Earthroots