Bruce Burr, a graduate of Art Center College of Design, has produced top quality professional photography for corporate marketing, advertising, musicians and artists for about 30 years. He has taken his technical photographic skills and applied them with his poetic vision of nature layering images to create his visually exciting work.
Bruce works and exhibits his fine art photography at the Towns Burr Contemporary Fine Art Gallery in Burbank, CA. The examples of work, shown here, are part of Burr’s “Visual Snacks” portfolio.
“The Chinese symbols for art, I am told, combine EYE, HAND, and HEART. This is the way that I create
I photograph scenes and objects that pique my imagination; THE EYE.
Then I alter and combine these images digitally; THE HAND.
Creating an image I feel takes on life force of its own - an expression, a mood; THE HEART.
These images are inspired by my walks in wild places and the work of painters like Georgia O’Keeffe, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali.
I often pose still life, together with landscape, in an unlikely combination. These images are composed, from driftwood, dried seaweed, shells, bark, roots, seed pods, clouded sky and birds in flight, overlaid with the beauty of flowers I have found growing wild or in my friend’s and neighbor’s yards.
I visualize life, rising out of earth and sea, a blooming flower, rising up, with vivid color announcing its unique spirit, as the bloom unfolds. This imagery is just around the corner and down the road from reality.”
* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist
