Burnside Fine Art

Burnside Fine Art Working in pastel, charcoal and occasional pencil, mostly figurative

Friday mornings (before sunrise), felinus gigantis joins the paleography meeting with Friends of the Argyll Archives. ❤...
08/02/2026

Friday mornings (before sunrise), felinus gigantis joins the paleography meeting with Friends of the Argyll Archives. ❤️

Selkie VI just isn’t having it. These personae are just kind of emerging from the page…
07/16/2026

Selkie VI just isn’t having it. These personae are just kind of emerging from the page…

Selkie V has been through many transformations. Might not be visible, but I went to town playing with the different tex...
07/08/2026

Selkie V has been through many transformations. Might not be visible, but I went to town playing with the different textures and lines teeming and dancing amongst the strands of kelp.

Having perhaps overworked Selkie III, here is Selkie IV, emergent, paused.
07/04/2026

Having perhaps overworked Selkie III, here is Selkie IV, emergent, paused.

Selkie II. Selkies are mythological shape shifters thought to live in the waters off Ireland, Scotland, and Iceland. Th...
06/30/2026

Selkie II. Selkies are mythological shape shifters thought to live in the waters off Ireland, Scotland, and Iceland. They live as seals in the water, and sometimes as humans on land. Shapeshifter stories across cultures offer ways to think about what it means to be human, in relation with the non-human world.

Selkie II. Selkies are mythological shape-shifters who are thought to live as seals in the waters off Ireland, Scotland...
06/30/2026

Selkie II. Selkies are mythological shape-shifters who are thought to live as seals in the waters off Ireland, Scotland and Iceland, and as very beautiful humans on land. They long for the sea while on land, so tend toward melancholy. Many cultures recognize mythological shapeshifters who raise questions about what it means to be human and in relation with the non human world. Fascinating!

Selkie I. Here, I was unusually open to discovery, with no idea at the outset where this piece was going. Playing with...
06/21/2026

Selkie I. Here, I was unusually open to discovery, with no idea at the outset where this piece was going. Playing with a gel-printed background thx to Ann Pease Dodys and Betsy Rose, I happened on a way to incorporate ‘s approach with abstract design as background, and somehow that part became a cloud of hair. I thought about the advice of Mary Whyte shared with me by my friend Gail Langer Karwoski “be a poet not a journalist”, and this happened. I discovered a selkie. It takes a village y’all. With much appreciation to my friends, mentors and fellow artists 💖

Such a great trip to STL. Mission successful and so much more fun with Kristin Shea ! Highlights: the Basilica (otherw...
06/19/2026

Such a great trip to STL. Mission successful and so much more fun with Kristin Shea ! Highlights: the Basilica (otherworldly), the Muny, Forest Park, St Louis Museum of Art, the London Tearoom. ❤️😻

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