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JOAN BURDETT NESS
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Reflecting on Yellow

Oil on Board
12" X 24"
Price: $700

While isolating at home watching the Spring unfold, my neighbour’s forsythia blooming out the window was so hopeful. Painting a still life helped me to be still too!
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Milky Way and the Whale

Mobile. Carved wood, Cherry Slats, Watercolour, Painted Shells
24” h X 13” X 13”
Price: $300 SOLD

This mobile was inspired by gazing up at the Milky Way far away from city lights. The painting later became the sail on this little ship which floats in concert with the Humpback whale. To me it represents the hope of a harmonious relationship with our magnificent sea mammals.
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Black Lives are Beautiful

Japanese Kozo Paper, Konnyaku starch, Water based dye
8”h X 6” X 6”
Price: $200

This is one of a series of Bowls. The Bowls represent a contained concept, a message, the heart of a matter. In this case Black Lives Matter.
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Celtic Impressions

Watercolour and Gold Leaf
20" X 35"
Price: $1500

The stones and fields in Ireland are beautiful and alive. It seems that the intricate designs in ancient Celtic stone work emerged from the natural patterns in the earth. This painting was my attempt to express the feeling of this convergence of mystical land, stone, and spirituality.
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Avian Navigation

Carved Wood, Cherry Slats, Kozo Paper, beads
24” h X 24” X 24”
Price: $1000
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Falling Dew

Mobile. Japanese Gampi Paper, Konnyaku starch, Wooden stick, Crystal beads
24" X 24"
Price: $200
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Sakura and the spring Migration

Pencil drawing
24" X 33"
Price: $600

I thought an old fashioned pencil drawing  was the perfect medium to express the extraordinary delicacy of this blooming Cherry Tree and the simultaneous phenomenon of spring bird migration.
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Narwhal Guardians

Mobile. Found wood, Cherry Slats, Linen, Shell
24”h X 20” X 20”
Price: $800
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Breeze

Mobile. Japanese Gampi and Kozo Paper, Konnyaku starch, Crystal beads
30" X 30" X 30"
Price: $400

Traditional Japanese Kozo papers are amazingly strong, yet delicate and luminous. During the heavy times we have experienced of late I found working with these papers so comforting and Light. The hanging pieces respond to the lightest breeze keeping them in a constant flowing motion.
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Ley Lines

Watercolour
24" X 30"
Price: $1000

This painting was inspired by the beautiful exposed rocks that soar along the Nordic fjords. They reveal a geological history that makes one humbled by the wisdom and connectedness held within the earth.
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Narwhal and Glacier

Watercolour
14" X 24"
Price: $600
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Icelandic Poppy

Mobile. Japanese Gampi Paper, Konnyaku starch, Crystal beads
14”H x 12” x 12”
Price: $150
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Pearl Diver

Found wood, Cherry slats, Linen, Paper and Beads
9”h X 12” X 14”
Price: $600

I make boats because they fascinate me. They are a metaphor for what boats represent to us: keeping on course, weathering storms, safe passage, navigating through life, freedom of spirit. It fascinates me that there are people on this earth who can navigate the oceans by reading the heavens, feeling the currents, sniffing the air and watching the changing colours in layered depths of water.
This boat is part of a series inspired by the Japanese Pearl Divers, mostly women who train from a young age to dive deep and gather pearls while holding their breath under water.
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Jelly Fish and Sea Horse

Mobile. Japanese Kozo Paper, Konnyaku starch, ribbons
30” h X 14” X 14”
Price: $250

This began as an accident and very soon I was in a forest of hanging Jellyfish and Seahorses. Studio magic! They are light, airy, and helped to nudge me into a welcome new direction
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Hibiscus

Mobile, two views. Japanese Gampi Paper, Konnyaku starch, Beads
14" X 12" X 12"
Price: $150
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      • Carolynn Bloomer
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      • Joan Burdett Ness
      • David Burman
      • Lenore Carr-Smith
      • Lorne Corley
      • Elizabeth Crammond
      • Nadine Dennis
      • Marilyn Donofrio
      • Elizabeth Fijalkowski
      • Sandra Franke
    • artists g - l >
      • Annette Gaffney
      • Alexander Gutyrya
      • Michael Harris
      • Rita Hisar
      • Bernadette Hunt
      • Elizabeth Jackson Hall
      • Lee Ann Janissen
      • Tosh Jeffrey
      • Christine Jermyn
      • Ileen Kohn
      • Shinya Kumazawa
      • Carolyn Laidley Arn
      • John Y. Lynch
      • Claire Lyons
    • artists m - r >
      • Susan Manchester
      • Nancy McHugh
      • Bonnie McKenzie
      • Michaelle McLean
      • Kathryn Naylor
      • Mike Nguyen
      • Cid Palacio
      • John Presseault
      • Beatrice Roche
      • Kurt Rostek
      • Lori Ryerson
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      • Isabelle Sauve
      • Sara Scheuermann
      • Marilyn Scott
      • Ann Stacey
      • Cathy Stasko
      • Paul Stewart
      • Les Tait
      • Yuliya Talinovsky
      • Annis Thompson
      • Marika Tiegermann
      • David Tomlin
      • Margaret Wasiuta
      • Ingrid Whitaker
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