Stan Burnside

Stan Burnside received Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from University of Pennsylvania. Upon returning home, he accepted a teaching position in the Art Department of The College of The Bahamas (now The University of The Bahamas), where he remained for 11 years. Burnside is an exceptionally gifted colourist, whose pigments, as much as boldness of line, carry the music of the piece with an ineffable luminosity. Although the sheer beauty of the art can hold the viewer captive, his pan-African sensibilities, his embrace of goodness wherever he perceives it and his personal symbolism transfix, giving rise to an intellectual game of hide and seek to unveil the intriguing secrets of his paintings.