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Ruth Burden is a local artist and teacher. Born and educated in Worcester, she later studied at the Birmingham College of Art in the early 1950s under Bernard Fleetwood-Walker and Katherine Fryer. Burden typically works in bright oil paints applied in a rough and expressive manner that has much in common with the landscapes of L. S. Lowry and Christopher Wood. As you can see in this painting, Burden’s work is characterised by an endearing naivety in representing the exterior world. The roaming sheep are cartoon-like in their simplicity. Superimposed upon the landscape they appear to almost float on top of the picture surface like fluffy white clouds. There is also a distinctive flatness and two-dimensional quality to Burden’s painting, very little attention being paid to achieving a convincing illusion of perspective or spatial depth.
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
Title
Sheep in a Landscape
Date
c.1960
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 50.8 x W 76.2 cm
Accession number
A0074
Acquisition method
purchased
Work type
Painting
