Artist : Peter Burns
Title : Nemesis
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 46 x 61 cm


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Peter Burns lives and works in County Mayo, Ireland. His enchanting impasto oil paintings unguardedly address the plight of the lost soul, the lone wayfarer and the anti-hero. Expressing the solitary struggle to comprehend the universe that looms over us and the magnitude of the world we inhabit, overpowers us and seals our fate to be ever a stranger in an ever stranger land.

Burns’ work has been exhibited extensively internationally and collected worldwide, and has featured in Wall Street International Magazine, The Sunday Times and ArtForum. He was also a recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and was awarded a BA in Sculpture and MFA in Painting from The National College of Art & Design, Dublin.