Lesley Burr

After graduating from Glasgow Burr completed an MA in Public Art and Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee in 1987. She has exhibited and travelled widely including going to China and India. Burr has won awards including the Ruth Davidson Memorial awards, has work in various public collections and has executed numerous public commissions. She has also taught part-time at Glasgow School of Art. Burr works most directly with landscape. Her sketches from life are transformed through her imagination into images that are romantic, dream-laden and filled with quiet. Burr lives in the Shetland Islands where the strange beauty of the Northern light; luminous summers and dark silent winters are major influences on her work. Nature is the vehicle for her ideas, which encompass themes of the cycle of life and death, love, loss, longing and spirituality.