“I shine a light 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
Christy Burdock has an interest in history, heritage and culture, observing emerging socio-political and religious ideas as they manifest within society. She shines a dim and gentle light into quiet pockets of ordinary life, communicating and reinterpreting contemporary narratives. Researching in situ across the country and drawing in her London studio, she is absorbed in observing the political knots and sporadic shoots of psychological intensity emerging through collective consciousness, transported from person to person and group to group, finally creating wider culture.
Research in 2022 will be based within museum collections. She refers to historic painting and works within the tradition of William Hogarth and Stanley Spencer, both English artists that documented life around them. Thinkers of interest are Roger Scruton, George Orwell and Thomas Sowell.
Her paintings and drawings have won a variety of awards and prizes detailed here.
Christy Burdock has an interest in history, heritage and culture, observing emerging socio-political and religious ideas as they manifest within society. She shines a dim and gentle light into quiet pockets of ordinary life, communicating and reinterpreting contemporary narratives. Researching in situ across the country and drawing in her London studio, she is absorbed in observing the political knots and sporadic shoots of psychological intensity emerging through collective consciousness, transported from person to person and group to group, finally creating wider culture.
Research in 2022 will be based within museum collections. She refers to historic painting and works within the tradition of William Hogarth and Stanley Spencer, both English artists that documented life around them. Thinkers of interest are Roger Scruton, George Orwell and Thomas Sowell.
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