“Artists consistently talk about ‘light’. Indeed, it has always been important within my paintings; the interplay between reflected and refracted light which helps the ambiguous relationships of the figurative and abstract, microcosm and macrocosm. Light which helps define the difference between pictorial space and sensory space; colour as materiality in its reference juxtaposed with colour as sensation and emotion. Basing my studio in Piha at the ‘Earthskin Residency’ for 9 weeks enabled a very different opportunity in responding to a new landscape and sense of place. The residency itself being cut short by the Covid 19 pandemic.“
- Brendan Burns
