Steve Burgess

Steve Burgess is a self taught artist using mainly oils, and is rapidly becoming known as one of the top wildlife painters in the world, he is also recognised as one of the worlds leading aviation artists, having painted many commissioned pieces for both the United States Air Force, and the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Since 1995 Steve Burgess has concentrated more and more on painting the natural world in it's infinite diversity. Steve says, 'My inspiration comes from the places I have travelled and the animals and landscapes around them. I like to try to paint scenes that can awaken something that is seemingly familiar within the viewer. If you can paint a scene accurately, the viewer who has experienced the same thing will say 'that's just how I remember it.'
Steve Burgess feels that there is nothing like seeing the animals he paints 'for real,' up close and personal, in places like the plains of Africa, and he tries to make at least one visit a year to that vast continent, to experience some of the worlds best wildlife viewing.
Steve Burgess has not always been a professional artist, in 1980 he joined the Royal Air Force as a photographer. The training he received was comprehensive in every photographic discipline, and this was to prove invaluable in future years, enabling him to capture photographic reference material to a professional standard, complementing any 'in situ' sketching and painting. In 1986 Steve Burgess left the Royal air Force and became a police officer with the Avon & Somerset Constabulary in the west of England, where he served for some 8 years, until deciding that it was now or never, and gave up police work with it's inherent job security, for the life of an artist with no guarantees! Happily, as it turned out, this was the right decision on Steve's part, as his art career has gone from strength to strength, taking part in many major exhibitions in the UK.
Because of his talent Steve Burgess is in the fortunate position of having a waiting list of clients worldwide. Each of his paintings is sold before work on it is even started, but he does paint a certain amount of pieces each year for inclusion and sale in exhibitions. In 2003 Steve Burgess was juried into the Society of Animal Artists and is looking forward to also exhibiting in future in the USA.
Steve's thoughts are never far from Africa and his Masai friends out there, who have bestowed upon him the honour of a Masai name 'OLAISHORANI' which means one who paints and draws pictures. For now, Steve Burgess will continue to strive to make his current painting the best he has ever done, and his advice to anyone interested in painting wildlife? 'Look at each animal as though you may never see it again'!

'Art will never be able to exist without nature'.
PIERRE BONNARD (1867 - 1947)

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