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Anita Burbeck's life is filled with art. Each day brings
new challenges and experiences to further push her artistic limits. Anita's art can be expressed by her drawings
(pastels, colored pencils, charcoal), paintings (oils, egg tempera, gouache, air brushing) to tactile fibers (spinning,
felting, sculptural felting, dolls and toys for children), and weaving. Anita's artistic interests are varied,
and she finds inspiration from varied experiences and visual stimuli.
Anita loves to create artwork dealing with relationships. Relationships that are expressed between a person and
child, pet, or surrounding environment. Anita loves to paint portraits. It doesn't matter to her if it is a person
or an animal. Both subjects are so filled with life's energy and longings, they are inspiring to capture that essence
that makes those individuals unique.
A special type of portrait that Anita does is called "portrait of the spirit". In this type of portrait, there is no attempt to make the figure represented to look like the person. This is a
spiritual portrait that deals with what power animals that person has. These portraits are most often done in pastels,
as this media is more immediate and very expressive.
Anita has been drawing all her life. Some of her earliest memories are of drawing. She was greatly blessed to have
a very talented grandfather who would critique her work, but never touch her work. He wanted her to make all of
the changes necessary to fix it herself. After all, what better way to learn?
As a child, Anita won summer art scholarships to study with the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota. Anita has been doing commissions since 1973. Anita graduated from the Moorhead Area Technical College in Commercial Art, various seminars dealing with art,
from painting, colored pencil portraits, porcelain, porcelain dolls, fiber arts, children's book writing, and sculptural
representations of the spirit. Anita also graduated from the Minnesota University of Moorhead with a B.A. in Fine
Arts.
When Anita accepts commissions for portraits, she likes to be able to do a photographic session with ther person(s),
animal(s) or combinations thereof.
This way she gets first hand impressions of personality, spirit, and relationships.
These things help to make the portraits much more intimate and the essence reaches out to the heart. When a photographic
session is unable to be done, she works from photos sent to her. She asks many questions about the subject to help
her get a feel for it (them). To do "portraits of the spirit", she does a journey or meditation for the
person, unless if the person already knows what their power animals are and can tell her about them.
Prints are available of many paintings.
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