Artist Registry
Jane M. Burrus
Contact information
jmbart@bellsouth.net
www.chestnutgroup.org
Artist statement
I have always felt a spiritual connection with nature and look to it for artistic inspiration. Painting landscapes and still-lifes forces me to stop the roar of life's engines and live totally in the moment of creativity. Making a physical connection with the outdoors gives me a sense of freedom as I try to interpret what gives the subject its energy and put that on canvas. Artist John Budkin once told me "painting is your personality, it's who you are." I begin with an original concept, but at a certain point, the painting dictates the direction it's going. I must go with the flow and allow my art to happen. I have learned that being creative is a process. A thinking, planning, doing process. I can't rush it or make it happen, it comes naturally. Painting is my personality, it's who I am.
Resume / bio
Jane Burrus grew up in Memphis, where her love of art began as a teenager at the Memphis Art Academy. She graduated from the University of Alabama with a B.A. in journalism and from the University of Memphis with a M.A. in radio and television. Jane continued to take painting classes after college, in addition to a fulltime career as an on-air radio personality at "America's First all Girl Radio Station", WHER, and later a television news producer at WHBQ-TV, Memphis. After raising two sons, she began a more serious development of her artistic creativity. She has studied with national artists Robert Johnson, Skip Whitcomb, Ken Backus, John Budkin, and Jeanne MacKensie, and Tennessee artists, Charles Brindley, Michael Shane Neal, David Guidera, Jason Saunders, Dawn Whitelaw, Paula Frizbe and Geralda Shockey. Jane is a member of the Chestnut Group, Plein Air Painters for the Land, a non profit group of over 100 artists dedicated to preserving the landscapes of Tennessee. She and her husband, Swan, divide their time between homes in Navarre, Florida, and Brentwood, Tennessee. Jane can be reached at (615) 377-9419, or (850) 939-1298. You can also see her work on line at www.artsnashville.org and contact her at imbart@bellsouth.net
Exhibitions
- Chestnut Group plein-air show and sale, 2003
- Chestnut Group landscape Exhibit, at The Gallery of Franklin, 2003
- Vanderbilt Hospital Earth Day exhibit, 2003
- Main Street Festival, Franklin TN, 2003
- 37th Annual Central South Art Exhibition, The Tennessee Art League, Belmont University Leu Gallery, Nashville TN, 2002
- Chestnut Group Landscape Exhibit, The Gallery of Franklin at The Factory, Franklin TN, 2002
- Visual Arts Alliance of Nashville 10th Anniversary Membership Exhibition, Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville TN, 2001
Professional affiliations
- Chestnut Group: plein-air painters
(Information last updated: 21 March 2005)
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