Diane Burko

The world's landscape has stimulated, challenged and inspired me for over thirty years. I investigate actual locations to observe the particulars of water, sky, and land.

How one perceives, remembers and experiences the landscape, how paint articulates light and form, and how the scale of the painting transforms discrete visual experiences into an image that becomes greater than any of its parts, have been constant preoccupations of mine.

My current series is about the Volcano in all its manifestations. I'm interested in capturing its molten lava flows, eruptions of fire and ash, as well as the pyroclastic deposits of magma, cinders and pumice fragments that accumulate around the craters and calderas of dormant volcanoes.

In 1998, I began visiting volcanoes in Costa Rica and Alaska. I am now focused on the activity of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. After exploring it, I plan to journey to Iceland, Southern Italy and New Zealand.