BOBBIE BURGERS
Based in Canada, Bobbie Burgers primarily paints large abstract, expressive flower pieces. Her work tends to focus more so on the painting techniques and singular brush strokes than the overall appearance and resemblance of the subject. It's easy too see the depth of the paintings and how they have developed, with lighter and more water based colors underneath and the thicker, confident strokes on top as her ideas and vision develops, The artist has also created sculptures of her paintings, including bronze sculptures of roses and ceramic wall sculptures. Her ceramic sculptures almost look like she has just layered paint on paint until she gets this rippled texture like her canvas paintings do. While all her work is quite similar, it's the colour schemes that make each piece individual., some are cool colours of blues, grey's and whites while other are warmer colours of yellows, oranges and reds. I prefer her brighter pieces, like 'Reckless Profusion' and 'A Recipe For Desire', the stronger colours draw me in as you can see the subject and shape of the flowers rather than the darker paintings which focus more on the light and dark strokes than the actual flowers. Bobbie Burgers is one of my favourite painters, i enjoy the scale of her paintings and the actual painting techniques. Her expression and love for painting changes it from being just regular, common flower paintings to something much more interesting.
