24”x36”

$1700

North of Camp Morton

24”x36”

Acrylic on canvas

$1900 framed

Has the water on Lake Winnipeg ever been this clear? Winnipeg means “muddy water” in Cree, and the lake usually lives up to its name. Where’s the algae bloom? Some people say the Zebra Mussels are cleaning the lake. I don’t know. Let’s just enjoy it. This is how the beach feels on a hot day, when there’s no better place to keep cool, watch the clouds canter over the treetops, and leave footprints in the wet sand.

Fiery Fall

24”x36”

Acrylic on canvas

$1900 framed

At the end of the shady riverside trail in McBeth park, a grassy clearing opened. Each autumn, a thick copse of sturdy Elf Maple --attended by Green Ash, Dogwood, and Blaze Maple--dressed in fire, waved to the passing river, and danced for over a hundred years. Now they only exist in this painting, this Fiery Fall. Everything you see there is gone; slashed and overburdened with a squat housing development.

At Her Repose

24”x40” framed

Acrylic

$1700

nicholas burns

Nicholas Burns studied Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba, was a member of the Bisons track team, worked at the student newspaper, was the Fine Arts representative on the UMSU student council, and graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Diploma in Fine Arts (1980). While at art school, he began exhibiting fine art at the Amie L'Heureux Gallery, and drawing storyboards for Winnipeg advertising agencies.

Upon graduation, he worked in the Provincial Department of Health Education Graphics, where he met Francophone artist, Real Berard, who asked him to join the Manitoba Snow Sculpture team. After travelling to The Pas and Quebec City to sculpt, the Manitoba Snow Sculpture team was filmed at Westhawk Lake by Claude Grenier for the NFB film L'esprit Des Neiges/Snow Dream. That year, Nicholas also joined the Winnipeg Film Group, where he continued to work on films with other WFG members.

In 1984, Nicholas moved north to Rankin Inlet, NWT (now Kangiqliniq, Nunavut) where he researched wrote and drew educational comic books for federal and territorial Health, Social Work, Wildlife, Tourism, and Education agencies, worked as a freelance graphic designer for aboriginal organizations and businesses, wrote short satirical programs for CBC Radio, and taught illustration and drawing at Arctic College. While in Rankin Inlet, he also helped establish the community's first library board. He chaired the John Ayaruaq Library Board for six years.

Upon returning to Winnipeg in 1993, he continued as a freelance artist, working on many music videos and films and in a variety of capacities: Director, Art Director, Storyboard Artist, Script Editor, Continuity, Props and Graphics, Location Scout, Sound Effects Foley, Actor and Extra. He rejoined the Winnipeg Film group, and was elected to their Board of Directors. From 1998-2001 he was Secretary of the WFG's Board and helped organize and facilitate the WFG's Screenwriters' Group. He continued storyboarding work for feature films, along with other commercial art, comics, and fine art for the next 30 years.

His paintings have been exhibited at Manitoba Society of Artists and Winnipeg Sketch Club juried exhibitions, where they've been awarded first places and honourable mentions, and are in the collections of Parks Canada, the Province of Manitoba, Heritage Winnipeg, and private collections across Canada and in England.

He is the author of the forthcoming non-fiction book "Exposed Bank: Landscape Painting and Climate Change" a collection of his landscape paintings and personal reminiscences.