Burgundy Featherkile has been painting and drawing for over forty years. In San Diego, she worked closely with master wildlife and landscape artist Maureen Manar in the 1980s and 90s. Working in oil and acrylics, she developed a unique, vibrant style of abstraction. Her paintings were shown in numerous juried exhibitions of the San Diego Art Institute (1987 through 1991), as well as the 15th National Juried Exhibition of the North Valley Art League, Redding, CA 1999.
In later years she developed chemical sensitivities and had to abandon both oil and acrylics. After a brief hiatus, Burgundy resumed drawing, using wax-based pencils. For some years, she collaborated with her husband David Baldwin on a series of whimsical drawings of abstract trees, faces, and humorous animals. The series is presented under the pseudonym of DGB Featherkile.
Burgundy Featherkile is also known locally as the producer and director of the intentionally horrible full-length movie, The Ghoul from the Tidal Pool a spoof of the worst of the 1950s horror movies. The cast of Ghoul included a large proportion of the population of the village of Yachats and visitors. An overview of Ghoul can be found on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
More recently, Burgundy has resumed creating her unique and intensely colorful abstracts using a medium that is more forgiving of aging hands and does not affect her allergies, Photoshop.
Works can be found locally at Earthworks Gallery, Yachats, and the artist’s studio. You can also find more of her work at Xanadu Gallery and the Lawrence Gallery.
| Burgundy Featherkile | burgundy@featherkile.com | Mixed |
