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Brenda Burk... Internationally recognized as a brilliant and sensitive portrait painter, classically trained in Europe, Brenda

Burk sees every aspect of life as a creative challenge. Her collectors avidly wait for each new series she creates, as she applies the various skills of the old masters to create fresh

and exciting contemporary masterpieces. She embellishes figure studies with raised gold and platinum leaf, creates magnificent flower pieces in tempera with oil glazes. Encaustics (melted wax with oil colors) give dazzling effect to backgrounds for semi-nudes, who are often wrapped in the antique lace she finds a constant inspiration. A master of realism both in portraits and still-life, interestingly one of her favorite subjects is the beauty and elegance of antique guns. Brenda Burk divides her time between her homes in New Orleans and England.

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