Encaustic painter Jim Bourke has elected to place his wax-soaked canvases directly on the wall of the Red Head Gallery, referring back to “the essence of painting and its enduring symbolism,” in contemporary culture.
He values “the aesthetic and emotional potential of a rich and varied material surface left as a trace of the process of creation,” he says of encaustic (a type of painting which involves a heated wax medium to which colored pigments have been added). Below, some of Jim Bourke’s previous work.
Jim Bourke’s work is in private and corporate collections across Canada and he has exhibited widely in his 35+ years as a practicing artist. Bourke also had a long career as an exhibition designer at the Art Gallery of Ontario and has won awards in numerous juried exhibitions.
See Jim Bourke’s artist page at the Red Head Gallery in Toronto, here.
His website, here.
His Instagram, here.
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Dog in a wagon!
Yes indeed! Glad you liked it.
Very interesting technique. I love the rhino.
Yes, it kind of jumps off the canvas, love it also.