Model Muse
DECEMBER 2ND, 2009
Model Muse
What happens when a landscape artist falls in love with a modeling agent? He paints his new view from the end of the runway.
The painter is Montreal-born, Vancouver-based David Burns.
Through his relationship with Liz Bell, he is given an insider view of
the fashion industry, including the hustle and bustle of New York
Fashion Week, and has used the fresh-faces and leggy figures strutting
the catwalk as inspiration for oil on canvas pieces. The large-scale
works, which stand six feet high, are almost like having a Linda
Evangelista or Lara Stone in your living room, but with abstract
strokes and the occasional wry commentary offered like, “Just say no to
flats on the runway.”
Pieces start at $5,800 and are available through www.burnspainter.com