“I shine a dim and gentle torch into the areas of life not readily seen. By observing, imagining, drawing and painting, I seek to illuminate, and in so doing, pay homage to my subjects”. Christy Burdock
Burdock's interests lie in observing emerging socio-political ideas as they manifest within society. She shines a dim and gentle light into quiet pockets of life, communicating and reinterpreting contemporary narratives. She is absorbed in observing the knots and sporadic shoots of intensity emerging through our collective consciousness, transported from person to person and group to group, finally creating wider culture.
Research is based in the here and now, current affairs, the impact of religion and politics. She refers to historic painting - Hans Holbein the younger, George Grosz and Francois Clouet. Also contemporary philosophers and political commentators such as Douglas Murray, Thomas Sowell and Roger Scruton, Psychoanalysis and George Orwell.
Her paintings and drawings have won a variety of awards and prizes detailed here.
Burdock's interests lie in observing emerging socio-political ideas as they manifest within society. She shines a dim and gentle light into quiet pockets of life, communicating and reinterpreting contemporary narratives. She is absorbed in observing the knots and sporadic shoots of intensity emerging through our collective consciousness, transported from person to person and group to group, finally creating wider culture.
Research is based in the here and now, current affairs, the impact of religion and politics. She refers to historic painting - Hans Holbein the younger, George Grosz and Francois Clouet. Also contemporary philosophers and political commentators such as Douglas Murray, Thomas Sowell and Roger Scruton, Psychoanalysis and George Orwell.
Her paintings and drawings have won a variety of awards and prizes detailed here.
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide” D.W.Winnicott