About the Artist
Pat DeVane Burns
"Co-creating with God"
Creating images has been a part of me as long as I can remember. Even today, the smell of a fresh box of crayons floods me with sweet childhood memories, like drawing on the undersides of tables and chairs... images that were only discovered by my parents during the move from North Carolina to Georgia when I was nine!
I started out with multiple local awards in high school in Macon, Georgia, garnering a Governor's Honors live-in program one summer at Wesleyan College, then entering Berry College on a full-tuition scholarship in art. I took time to raise a family and be active in my husband's business while continuing to learn through occasional workshops, through artist peer groups and by amassing a huge art library. Moving over twenty-five times, I still managed to get artwork into the public eye. Now that the children are grown and I have retired from the family business, the last 15 years have been spent full time on my passion with a backlog of ideas and images flowing into existence.
Not only do I paint in acrylics and oils, I also enjoy sculpting in clay, concrete and wire... influenced by so many years in the construction industry.... concentrating on people and animals.
In fall of 2013, I began sculpting in clay. It all started with the desire to make a bust of my mother, who died in a car wreck when she was 59. Over the years I tried several times to paint her portrait, but was emotionally unable to do so. I enrolled in an evening continuing education class with Dr. Marlin Adams working with water base clay. This was the breakthrough that I needed! I find the hands-on contact with the clay absorbs my emotions, my feelings, and the relationships involved and allows me to translate them into 3-D imagery. I consider myself a conduit... a tool to be used to create something tangible from the intangible. Clay is so direct, so immediate, with no technical process to interrupt the transfer. It is the same today as thousands of years ago. There is a hard-to-describe connection that is felt when a sculpture hits that certain point when it “comes to life” for me. My desire is for the piece to communicate that special connection, creating an on-going dialog, bringing the viewer continuing enjoyment with the story represented.
In 2018 I started creating more sculptures that could be reproduced through bronze, bonded bronze and resin in order to share them with more people. There are just a limited number of originals that I can do..... but my bucket list gets longer every day!
In late 2021 my heart was led into a Christian-based mentoring program called "Created to Thrive" by Matt Tommey. As I grow with God's guidance, I feel my role as a conduit of His grace strengthened and expanding through paintings and sculpture.
Patricia DeVane Burns (b. 1951, USA)
274 English Rd.
Forsyth, GA 31029
478-244-4493
Artist statement:
I feel God working through this passion He built within me, allowing me to be His partner in the process of creating something visual from something emotional. My hope is to reveal His grace by capturing the spirit of love He used to create the subjects that I portray.
Education:
2013- 2017: Gordon State College, Barnesville, GA
1969-1970: Berry College, Rome, GA, under full-tuition art scholarship
1968: State of Georgia Governor's Honors Residency, Wesleyan College,
Macon, GA
Information from 2010 to present:
Present:
Concentrating on projects from my home studio.
Solo Shows:
2014- “Creatures Great & Small”, Generations Gallery, The Village at Indian Springs, Flovilla, GA
2014- “Diversity”, Arts Clayton Gallery, Jonesboro, GA
2010- “Conversations in Paint”, Old Jail Art Center, Darien, GA
2010- “Art of Pat Burns”, Art on the Avenue Fine Art Gallery, Macon, GA
Duo & Trio Shows:
2026- "Our Living World", Lamar Arts Alliance Depot Gallery, Barnesville, GA
2025- "Close Connections", The Novel Experience, Zebulon, GA
2024- "Together Again", Thomaston Upson County Arts Center, Thomaston, GA
2023- "Co-Creating", Lamar Arts Alliance Depot Gallery, Barnesville, Ga
2015- “Luminosity & Sculpture”, The Village Gallery at Indian Springs, Flovilla, GA
2012- “Out West in Georgia”, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA
2012- “Out West in Georgia”, Lamar Arts Fine Art Gallery, Barnesville, GA
2011- “Dog Days of Summer”, Macon Arts Alliance Gallery, Macon, GA
Select Juried Group Shows:
2025- Stratford Gallery 6010, Macon, GA
2024- Booth Western Art Museum Annual Artist Guild Show, Cartersville, GA
2017- “Interconnected” 3-D Invitational, The 567 Center for Renewal, Macon, GA
2016 & 2018- Jackson-Butts County Invitational, Jackson, GA
2014-2017- Borderlands Gallery, Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA
2015, 2014, 2024- Downtown Gallery, Cartersville, GA
2011- Arts Clayton Governor's Show, The Capitol, Atlanta, GA
2010- 23rd Coastal National, St. Simons Island, GA
Select Juried Competitions:
2026- Alabama Wildlife Fine Art Competition, Wetumpka, AL
2026- Georgia National Fair, Perry, GA- Open Professional
2026- Lake Country 10th Annual Fine Art Show, The Artisans' Gallery, Eatonton, GA, FIRST Place Award
2025- Alabama Wildlife Fine Art Competition, Wetumpka, AL
2024- Alabama Wildlife Fine Art Competition, Wetumpka, AL- Best of Show $10,000 Purchase Award
2024- Georgia National Fair, Perry, GA- First Place, Open Professional Wildlife
Second Place, Open Professional Domestic Animals
2023- Georgia National Fair, Perry, Ga - Best in Show, Open Professional All Categories
First Place, Open Professional
Ga National Fair Purchase Award
2018- Kudzu Art Zone Open, Norcross, GA – 2nd Place “Maggie Mae”
2018- MGAA Winter Arts, Macon, GA – 3rd Place 3-D “Secrets”
2017- ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Exhibition, Miami, FL
2017- 28th Annual Fine Arts Competition, Georgia National Fair, Perry, GA –
“Ever Watchful” – First Place Open Professional Sculpture
“Taz” – First Place Open Professional Wildlife 3-D
“Pugsly” – First Place Miniatures 3-D
“See Spot Sit” – Second Place ‘Fun’ mixed media
“Boxer Pup” – Third Place Miniatures 2-D
2017- “8th Nature & Wildlife Exhibition”, St. Augustine, FL
2017- South Cobb Arts Alliance 30th National, Mableton, GA
2017- Metro Montage XVII, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA
2017- CFUMC Festival of Arts, Cumming, GA - Best in Show 3-D & CFUMC Awards
2016- American Women Artists National, Bennington, VT
2106- Art in the Armory, Perry, GA - Best of Show
2016- MGAA Winter Arts, Macon GA - 1st Place, 2nd Place & HM in sculpture
2016- Artists of Georgia, Dublin, GA - Honorable Mention
2014- Annual Juried Competition, Arts Clayton, Jonesboro, GA – Best of Show
2013- Artist's Magazine's 30th Annual Art Competition - wildlife finalist
2013- “4th Nature & Wildlife Exhibition”, St. Augustine, GA
2013- “Here & Now”, Arts Clayton, Jonesboro, GA – First Place
2010- Plein Air Georgia Paint Out, Indian Springs, GA – Best of Show
2009- Paint America Top 100, Oklahoma City, OK (traveled USA during 2010)
Select Online Competitions:
2024 Jerry's Artarama First Place Nov
2024- TheArtList.com Artist of the Month Nov/Dec
2018- Western Art Rodeo ‘Silver Dollar’ Competition:
Second Place Sculpture “Medicine Hat”
2018- Light Space & Time 8th Annual ‘Animals’:
First Place 3-D “Zeke”
3-D Special Recognition “Secrets” & “Stealing the Stash”
2018- Light Space & Time Figurative Art Exhibition:
Overall Winning Artists Category- Tenth Place “Playing Dress-Up”
Painting & Other Category- Fifth Place “Playing Dress-Up”
3-D Category- Third Place “Unconditional Love”
Special Recognition “The Offering”
2017- Light Space & Time 7th Annual ‘Animals’- HM 3-D & Special Merit Awards
2015-2017- American Women Artists Spring Online Shows
Publications:
South Atlanta Magazine, Summer Issue 2018, pgs.66-67
Welcome Home Magazine, Forsyth-Monroe County, 2018, pgs.100-103
Wolf, Rachel(Editor), Strokes of Genius 7, North Light Books, 2015, pg.80
We are Clayton Magazine, June/July 2014, pg.19
Juror's Choice, Southwest Art Magazine, vol. 43, #8, January 2014, pg. 59
Collections:
Lamar County Animal Shelter Mural Project, Barnesville, GA
Alabama Federal Wildlife Commission, Birmingham, AL
Bonded bronze life size man & Labrador retriever for public dog park, The Village at Indian Springs, Flovilla, GA
Bronze sculptures for permanent public "Fox Hunt" display, City of Forsyth, GA
Arts Clayton Permanent Collection, Jonesboro, GA
Works held in private collections in United States, UK and Australia.
Select Presentations:
2018- Plantation Wildlife Art Festival, Thomasville, GA
2018- Artist in Residence, Georgia National Fair, Perry, GA
2014, 2015- Sculpture demonstrations for Zoo Atlanta and Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA
