Alice Burton has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from York University in Toronto, where she majored in painting and drawing. She has done independent studies with Canadian artist Ronald Bloore and Claude Breeze and workshops with American artist, Eric Fichl and Susan Rothenberg. Although mainly a Canadian artist Burton exhibits worldwide. She has been with Westdale Gallery since 2002 and currently exhibits in Toronto.
What becomes abundantly lear in looking, as a whole on Alice Burton's artwork, is the artist's indispensable capacity to attain a certain emotional involvement. These include attempts at defining a sense of history, of memory and of the self. Resisting completely sentimentalizing components in her work for the benefit of enlarging the scope of her authenticating journey into creativity, Alice Burton's abstractions grapple with divided loyalties. Stylishly speaking, Andre Gide's dictum, "the struggle between classicism and romanticism takes place within every mind..." also helps us to understand the artist's keen gamesmanship. The forces of positive ambiguity surge through Alice Burton's work; the result is visual traces of integrative wholeness that are nothing short of inspiring and nothing less than beautiful to behold.
