Rachael Burke: A Blaze of Violet

Rachael Burke uses instinct to create a totally new experience through the true subject of her artwork, which is her painting process. Presented as both oil on canvas and oil on panel, Burke often allows the surface to reveal evidence of how she builds the painting when searching for equivalencies for what she thinks and feels. Burke digs for the connective reality we all share. In addition, a painterly process, mark-making versus a blended mechanical technique, works best for her to convey the sense of aliveness, continuation, renewal, and the internal process of continually evolving, more life affirming than static. She seeks the beauty in the presence of impermanence.