Lot 599

Burton's landscapes portray an emotional and psychological condition, imbued with a sense of the romantic and the gothic. The artist has said, "growing up in the countryside of rural Victoria in an isolated farmhouse, my siblings and I created myths and fantasies about our surroundings. These were fed by my father's eccentric collection of books - Saki, Edgar Allen Poe, The Brothers Grimm, BBC dramas like Dr Who, old Hammer-Horror movies. A move to Tasmania, a truly gothic landscape, reinforced my darker aesthetic tendencies. No one can escape the influence of that landscape and its history. It's like being haunted."