Frances Burns

ABOUT FRANCES BEBE BURNS
I am eighty-four years young, a lifetime citizen of Pueblo CO. I received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Colorado State College with majors in art and psychology. After teaching art in middle school for several years, I spent many years purchasing and remodeling real-estate. I am still involved with owning and managing income properties. Raising three children, four, if a husband is included, returning to school and obtaining a degree while the children were infants and toddlers, putting my all into doing a good job of teaching, and finally, following my husband into real-estate, left me no time to pursue my own dreams. It is only in the last several years that I have been able to devote the time to pursue my own art.

ABOUT MY ART
The best way to describe myself is as an intuitive artist involved with all the principals of design plus texture, color, movement, etc. While I primarily use acrylic paint there is no limit to what I use as tools or materials. I begin most of my paintings with splashes of color on a wet board. Often I add texture in a random pattern. The movement of the paint determines the direction I take. Once I see something begin to develop I then purposely add t...

BA degree with majors in art and phycology. Several classes at Pueblo Community college, Sangre De Christo Arts Center.

AWARDS/JURIED SHOWS

2007-2011 Awards: Pueblo Art Guild-First place-Juror's choice with cash award, Yellow Sky, five other first places, and numerous 2nd, 3rd, and honorable mentions .
2008: Best of Show and First Place in the Colorado State Fair with cash award. ($1,100) "Evolution"
2009: Three paintings juried into CO State Fair Professional, Jurors' Choice, "Yellow Sky"
2010: Finalist in the Artist's Magazine's 28th art competition. "Moon Over the Prairie"
2011: One painting juried into CO State Fair Professional
2012: Five paintings juried into CO State Fair Professional
2013: First Place in Mixed Media ($50.00) in Manitou Springs Arts Council's "Colors of Change" show, "Breaking Up"
2014: Finalist in International Society of Experimental Artists 23rd annual juried exhibition, "Shades of Black and Blue"
2014: Finalist in Aquarius National Water media 2014 Exhibition. "Breaking Up"
2014: Four paintings juried into CO State Fair Professional, Third Place, "Blue Moon", $100.
2015: Four paintings juried into CO State Fair Professional, l Second Place, $250, "Go With the Flow"
2016: Finalist in Spotlight on Pueblo by Colorado Creat...