Rosemary Burn
Contemporary British Figurative Painting. Portraits, landscapes, still life, semi abstract. Works in notable collections worldwide. Commissions welcome
Train journey Oil on board 40x30cm £400
A flooded landscape next to the train tracks
Late light Oil on board 30x40cm £450
Stepping through the puddles on a late winter’s evening in Wiltshire
Wednesday Oil on board 40x30cm £400
Woods Oil on board 30x40cm £400
An oil painting of a little corner of woodland in Wiltshire, England, familiar to me as I go on my daily walks. Sunlight bounces off the trees creating patterns and a semi abstract effect to this atmospheric piece
Sudden sunset Oil on board 40x30cm £400
The moon Oil on canvas 40x50cm £450
Melting snow Oil on board 26x31cm SOLD
Snow melting on a window makes an evocative image
Clouds come and go Wiltshire oil sketch Oil on board 31x26cm £395
A subtly captured sunrise over fields in Wiltshire, England. Gestural marks are used to conjure energy and vitality in this piece, together with the expressive use of colour. This painting would provide a gentle contemplative addition to any room
23 waterlilies Oil on board 25x31cm not currently available
Night train Oil on board 40x30cm £400
Rain on strawberry hill Oil on board 30x40cm
Day lily Oil on board £400
Escape the crowds (near Durdle Door) Oil on board 40x30cm S0LD
Durdle Door Oil on board 40x30cm £450
Summer fields Oil on board 31x26cm £400
An impressionist oil sketch of fields in rural Wiltshire, England, on a summer's day. Distance is implied with gestural marks which take our eye to the horizon which is rendered in soft green. Colourful and evocative, this piece will warm up any wall.
Scottish stream Oil sketch on board £395
Road to the Highlands Oil on board 40x30cm £420
An oil sketch of a road weaving through the rugged Highlands of Scotland. Gestural marks and subtle shades describe the array of colours and textures beside the road and reaching into the mountains. An atmospheric image which would bring calm and perhaps nostalgia to any room
Evening colours Oil on board 26x31cm £400
Evening colours in a garden shrunk to deep indigos and shimmering foliage against the backdrop of a fading sky. Painted in an impressionist, gestural style.
23 raindrops Oil on board 46x36cm SOLD
Long shadows Oil on board 31x26cm SOLD
Shadows cast on a summer evening in a Wiltshire landscape
Crossroads Oil on board 31x26cm £395
An atmospheric landscape painted in a semi abstract, impressionist style. The scene is a crossroads in the lonely, bleak setting of Salisbury Plain, England
Yellow lines 45x36cm Oil on board £410
An oil painting featuring yellow road lines in the twilight, as the landscape becomes changed by headlamps, and in urban areas, street lighting. This road is in rural Wiltshire, England, where the sky is often darker; there is a feeling of melancholy to this piece as it brings perhaps memories of similar homeward journeys through no man's land. Painted in a gestural style.
Dots and dashes, Wiltshire Oil on board 31x26cm £395
Oil sketch of Wiltshire
Condensation Oil on board £420
Train through rain 40x30cm Oil on board SOLD
A blurred distant landscape seen through rain on a train window. This painting gives us several layers of vision - the rain drops running across the window, denoting the speed of the train, subtle reflections of the train interior, and that cold English landscape rushing by. A dichotomy exists between the watery subject and its depiction with oil
Clouds and mountains Oil on board 46x36cm £420
An atmospheric landscape painting of clouds softly descending over the Scottish mountains in late summer. Changeable weather in this lonely part of the world echoes the changing times
A snow day Oil sketch on board 31x26cm £395
Footprints left in snow, in a lonely part of rural Wiltshire in England. Sketchy and spontaneous, this painting conveys the cold as well as the residual energy of the people who enjoyed their time there and left their footprints behind
Somewhere and nowhere Wiltshire oil sketch on board £375
Salisbury sunset. oil sketch on board 31x28cm £395
A loose, atmospheric sketch of clouds hanging over the horizon as the sun sets on Salisbury Plain, a lonely location in the south of England. The colours are placed with gestural marks, giving a painterly composition
Onandon (Highlands) Oil on board 40x30cm £430
A road in the Scottish Highlands which seems to go on and on, hence the title. Painted with gestural, expressive sweeps of colour, this painting is full of energy and movement. The road we are on takes our eye effortlessly far into the Scottish mountains and up into the moody sky beyond
Tracks in the snow pastel on paper 36x28cm £250
-2 on Salisbury Plain Pastel on paper 36x28 cm £250
Scottish creek oil on board
Scottish Highlands no. 1 oil on board 50x41cm £450
A textural and atmospheric impressionist painting of a lonely uninhabited place in the Scottish Highlands. Implements other than brushes have been used to build additional marks and surface interest into this beautiful haunting landscape
Lost in time Oil on board 31x26cm £430
A modern impressionist of a church painted in spring time from the artist's garden. The soft spring sunlight is evident in the colours of this painting, and the title brings to our attention the timeless quality of these ancient structures
Puddle Oil on board 31x26cm £400
An atmospheric impressionist painting of a puddle in the Wiltshire countryside at sunset
Sprinkler Oil on board 26x31cm £400
This artwork is an impression of a garden in high summer, and the explosive lights and patterns from a garden sprinkler. Purely a celebration of the season with its bright colours, warmth and glittering light.
Lily pond Oil on board 31x26 cm £400
A goldfish in a summer lily pond, the colours and shapes of the waterlilies making a semi abstract composition
Shadows crossing a track. Oil on board 31x26cm £395
Moonlights Oil on board 40x30cm £430
An atmospheric impressionist painting of waterlilies and reflections at night. The light from the moon is scattered over the surface of the lilies and the deep blue water offering a still, haunting image
Land oil on board 40x30cm SOLD
A bright, summer English landscape rural Wiltshire, where I live. Painted in an impressionist style with loose flowing brushstrokes, this painting reveals the way sunlight catches the undulating contours of the fields, and the shadows falling across them from hedgerows and a small farm building.
Distant lights oil on board 40x30cm £400
An atmospheric impressionist painting of an English rural landscape at dusk, with distant lights twinkling in the distance, giving depth to the scene, and reminding us of the presence of human civilization as night gently falls
Pioneer Oil on board 31x26 cm £400
Lichen, a pioneer species and ever present if we look closely enough on walls, wood, rocks. Beautiful and mysterious, and an example of the universe's magical creativity. This painting is a homage to the earth and its wondrous inventions.
Cars Oil on board 26x31cm £400
A modern impressionist painting featuring car headlights at dusk, reflecting off the lines on a road in the English countryside. Atmospheric, and reminiscent of those return journeys we have all taken at twilight, when the lights begin to glow and herald the onset of night
Dandelion field Oil on board 31x26cm SOLD
A familiar sight - a field in the countryside taken over by dandelions, but not often seen as a subject for a painting. Seen from close up, the dandelions take on a mysterious and slightly eerie quality as they recede as far as the eye can see into the distant horizon.
Storm Oil on board 40x30cm SOLD
An atmospheric landscape painting of storm clouds over a Wiltshire landscape. Painted in a contemporary impressionist style, this painting merges figurative landscape painting with the semi abstract, with gestural marks and strong colour contrasts
Irises Oil on board 26x31cm £420
A study of irises in a garden in springtime, with the sunlight shining through their delicate patterned petals. Painted in an impressionist and realist style this painting would bring colour and joy to any wall
Raindrops Oil on board 35.5x30.5 cms SOLD
Raindrops and reflections on a lake.
Blue water Oil on board 41x31cm
Headlights Oil on board 28x36cm SOLD
An atmospheric painting of a car on a wet road emerging through the fog and rain. The headlights reflect on the wet surface of the road, and the image may remind us of treacherous driving conditions as we search for our way home to safety.
Rainwater Oil on board 41x31cm
Gestural marks give a painterly quality to the ripples and reflections in this artwork
Silver and gold Wiltshire landscape Oil on board 31x26cm
A silver sky and golden remains of last year's crops form a subtly colourful rural English landscape. Atmospheric and slightly misty we can almost fill the chill air of an early spring day in Wiltshire
Sunrays Oil on board 39x49cm £400
Sunrays and reflections in a lake.
Creeping shadows Oil on board 31x26cm £400
An atmospheric landscape painting of the Wiltshire countryside. Painted in an impressionist style this painting conjures colours from a setting sun, chased by lengthening shadows.
Fallen leaves Pastel and pencil 30x40cm £350
Silver linings Charcoal and pastel 44x30cm
Stormy water Oil on board 26x31 cm £350
Raindrops and the brooding reflection of a storm over a lily pond. An atmospheric piece which also contains abstract as well as subtle colour values. Painted in a contemporary impressionist style
Evenings on Strawberry Hill Oil on board 31x26 cm SOLD
A serene evening landscape in late summer; a familiar sight for the artist from one of her regular evening walks in her home county of Wiltshire, England. Painted in a contemporary impressionist style, the ripe corn in the foreground is suggested with a few wide sweeps of the brush, and the evening sky complements the sunlight catching the distant fields and a solitary house.
Flood Oil on board 31x26 cm
An impressionist oil painting of early twilight and a flood across a Wiltshire road. This artwork conveys a sense of melancholy as the evening begins to close in, creating subtle lights and colours in the rain water.
Lake in the evening
Oil on board 25.5x30.5 cms SOLD
Almost abstract, this impression of the magic in the sunset over a lake in late summer shimmers, evoking calm.
Waterlandandsky Oil on board 31x26 cm SOLD
An atmospheric painting implementing colour and light to offer an observation about the unity, transience and connected nature of the elements on earth. Painted in an impressionist style this piece offers a subtle mix of soft violets and blues, and will draw the viewer to it often
Dandelions Oil on board 26x31 cm
Dandelions receding into the distance in a rural summer scene
Girl and dog st the white horse Oil on board 31x23 cm £275
An atmospheric oil sketch of a girl and a dog walking at the wild white horse in Wiltshire
Raindrops Oil on board 26x31 cm SOLD
Raindrops on a pond , a subject revisited as autumn approaches again. A gentle, evocative painting which could quietly grace any wall, inviting contemplation and reflection. Painted in an impressionist style, capturing the abstract patterns in the subject
Summer evenings Oil on board 41x31 cm £350
An impressionist painting of a balmy summer evening at the white horse in Woodborough, Wiltshire. Soft golden sunlight creates long shadows as a girl sits in the foreground looking into the haze in the distance
Swim Oil on board 31x26 cm £350
Swim - either a command or an observation. An impression of the joyful calamity in the water as a young person enjoys a swim; a backdrop of gardens and sunlight complete this summer scene. Shown at Figurative Art Now 2021, Mall Galleries London
Glimpse of a lake
Oil on board 30x40 cms SOLD
This atmospheric landscape painting describes a fleeting glimpse of a lake in the distance, surrounded by verdant vegetation and topped by a late evening sky with fluffy pieces of cloud.
Evening over a lake Oil on board SOLD
Yesterday Oil on board 31x26 cm £400
An atmospheric landscape painting of the Wiltshire countryside under darkening clouds in early summer. Cow parsley in the foreground leads the eye through the painting to the light on the distant horizon
Lily pond Oil on board 26x31 cm £450
A contemporary impressionist painting of reflections on the surface of a lily pond
Unwelcome Oil on board 26x31cm £400
An oil painting which captures the feeling of intrusion into nature
Oil sketch, Martins down nature reserve Oil on board 31x26 cm £375
An oil sketch of a British nature reserve, painted in a contemporary impressionist style. Broad brushstrokes and energetic fluid marks bring subtle abstract values to this rural scene.
Clouds passing over Wiltshire Oil on board 31x23 cms £375
An impressionist painting of clouds and shadows over a Wiltshire landscape
Mackerel sky Oil on board 31x26 cm £375
An atmospheric impressionist painting of a mackerel sky
Tracks in the snow Oil on board SOLD
The textures and colours made by car and foot tracks in fresh snow in the depths of a Wiltshire winter. Painted in an impressionist style, this painting epitomizes this time of the year when gentle snow flakes hang in the air and nature stands still
Frozen Wiltshire Oil on board 30x40 cms SOLD
A wild, frozen scene in Wiltshire. Painted during the 2021 pandemic and lock down
A covid19 evening Oil on board 28x30.5 cms SOLD
A contemporary impressionist landscape painting (Wiltshire) with two figures in the foreground watching the sun weaken in the sky over a patchwork of fields. An expression of the lonely, thought provoking times in 2020.
Path beside a lake
Oil on board 40x30 cms £495.
Another evocative painting of the Lake District - shimmering water is captured here with quick, expressionistic brush strokes.
Evening on the Thames
Oil on board 36x28 cms SOLD
An almost abstract description of colourful lights bouncing off the surface of the Thames in the evening.
Last summer Oil on board 26x31 cms £550
A modern impressionist painting of a garden in august, full of intense colour, light and deep vibrant shadows
Lake in autumn Oil on board 30x40 cms
An impression of leaves reflected over a lake, partly with autumn colours, and also silhouetted against an early evening sky.