About Angela Burns

Angela Burns has been painting for over 40 years now.

Her practice is focused on large abstract, expressionist paintings inspired by the beautiful land and seascape of Otago’s coast.

Her works reflect the spirit of a place, focusing on the shadows of changing seasons, the abstraction seen in cloud forms, land forms, sea and sky, light and atmosphere.

Angela studied at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in the seventies where she majored in Painting and Art History.

After 18 years as curator at the Otago Settlers Museum she returned to university and teachers’ college.

Teaching followed as well as owning and running a business — the Green Acorn Café and Gallery — within the University of Otago campus.

Angela’s work has sold worldwide and can be found in several New Zealand galleries, including De Novo and Moray Gallery in Dunedin, and Mobile Art, Auckland.