February 2012
“Winter Dreams” Show Opening on Friday, February 24 at the Urbanna Harbor Gallery and Art Services in the quaint, river port of Urbanna, Virginia, situated on the artist's beloved Rapphannock River. The show will display a large exhibition of Burrough's oil paintings over the last 5 years.
January 2012
While painting a plein air oil painting on January 28, down at the Lee Monument on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, an AP photographer for the Richmond Times Dispatch happened by and snapped a picture of Burrough painting the famous statue. The photo and caption ran in at least 3 papers in the country! Photo by Joe Mahoney, Richmond Times Dispatch
December 2011
Gallery Flux "Small Works: An Exhibit of 18 artists" opens Friday, December 2, 6pm - 8:30pm in Ashland, Virginia
October 2011
Show Opening on Saturday, October 8 at the Warm Springs Gallery in Warm Springs, Virginia, nestled in the Allegheny Mountains near the Homestead Resort. These paintings feature the scenic Jackson River and the beautiful, surrounding countryside of Bath County.
February 2011
Three paintings were awarded in the PaintAmerica Top100 Competition!
January 2011
Show Opening: "Artist Collective: Friends of the Gallery" - Opens Friday, January 7th, 2011, 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Gallery 5800, above Suitable for Framing, 5800 Grove Ave., Richmond, Virginia (At the corner of Libbie and Grove)
November 2010
The new website was launched! Hope you enjoy the new navigation features.
Spring/Summer 2010
• I lost over 2 exhausting weeks in May helping my sister clean out her flooded condo in Nashville! 5' 7” of floodwater and mud! Thank God for the generous help of so many volunteers who assisted unselfishly with their time, energy and money. The “Volunteer State” takes on a whole new meaning to me.
• Since April, I've made 3 trips to the northern Virginia mountains and horse country exploring the region, taking reference photos and completing some small, plein-air paintings and field studies.
• My huge goal for the summer is to totally rebuild this website using more up-to-date software. This has proven to be more daunting than I had thought, but I'm making progress. There are so many glitches with this current software that I just stopped uploading new images—concentrating my time on revamping the entire site. It may not look a whole lot different when completed, but it will be MUCH easier to manage once finished. Please stay tuned! I'm working as fast as I can.
Winter 2010
• Completed a couple of commissions for two very happy clients.
Autumn 2009
• Marketing, Marketing . . . brochures, flyers, CDs! Worked on a number of studio paintings and did a little plein air painting in the beautiful Fall weather. I did a small snow scene for this year's Christmas card, which features our state bird.
Summer 2009
• In late July, I went on a private 47- mile rafting trip down the Green River in Colorado and Utah with 4 other folks. This is a scenic river running through the heart of Dinosaur National Monument country. It was an incredible journey through the Lodore Canyons with 900 ft. high walls on either side and Class IV rapids in the river. It was a five-day camping trip I took countless reference photos and was actually able to paint on-site two plein air oil paintings. Upon returning back, I've enlarged these scenes into larger, more detailed studio paintings.
• Since I was already out west, I then flew up to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to paint in the Tetons with my artist buddy Bill Smith for a few days. We used his inflatable pontoon rafts to do a trip of our own down the Snake River for 15 miles, painting once on a rock shoal looking back to the Tetons. What a gorgeous day! Many thanks to his sweet wife Jolene for her delicious meals and “raft-shuttling” services. We painted on the Jackson Land Company Ranch outside of Jackson, as well as on the banks of the Snake River. The final day we crossed Jenny Lake and hiked up into the Tetons to Hidden Falls, where we set up and painted. Lots of new reference photos from this trip as well.
Winter/Spring 2009
• Commissions, commissions! Last December, I painted a family portrait (including the dog). Since January, I've painted 5 commissioned paintings. Two are of the Tetons, one of Richmond's beautiful ACL arched railroad bridge over the James, and one large painting (and it's smaller study) of Maroon Bells in Colorado.
Autumn 2008
• I spent a couple of beautiful days last autumn painting plein-air paintings of barns and ponds in the countryside of Virginia.
Summer 2008
• In June 2008, I traveled to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to paint with my good friend Bill Smith, along with another accomplished artist John Taft who came up from Colorado to join us. We painted several plein-air oil paintings in Grand Teton National Park and rafted 8 miles down the Snake River under the awesome Tetons. Truly inspiring.
• Two of my paintings were accepted into the 2007 Paint America 2ndMini50 competition.
Autumn 2007
• In the Fall of 2007, I spent two wonderful weeks painting in Italy: the first week on the gorgeous Italian Riviera in the Cinque Terre region where I based out of the fishing village of Vernazza attending a workshop led by Scott Burdick. Colorful boats, buildings and people. Then the second week, I rented a small car and ventured alone into the beautiful countryside and hill towns of Tuscany: visiting scenic places like Montalcino, Pienza, Cortona, Lucca, Volterra, and Florence! Italy really is as scenic and beautiful as they say. Check out my Italy Trip Page to see the smaller plein air paintings done on that trip or the larger studio works since I've returned. I've been so busy with larger paintings of Cinque Terre that I have yet to begin any studio paintings of Tuscany! Can't wait to start.
- Joseph Burrough
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