Biography

     Keith Burgess resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia, USA. He has painted the Appalachian landscape from Pennsylvania down to Georgia. Keith's formal art education began in college, where he received a B.A. Degree from Georgia Southwestern State University. After college he began a career as a graphic artist/illustrator for a major publishing corporation in Atlanta, where he remained for 30 years. Though he set aside painting during the early part of his corporate tenure, his interest in fine art was always present. He visited galleries, museums and continued to keep abreast of the fine art world. In the early 1990's he began pursuing painting on a more serious level, studying with some of the Country's top artists and attending classes and workshops in his spare time. In 2003 he left the corporate world to become a full time painter.
     Burgess' sensitive paintings are characterized by fluent, painterly brushwork, eye-catching composition, and expert draftsmanship. Using a warm jeweled palette, he weaves rich tapestries of color and light. His paintings evoke the beauty and serenity of the rural American landscape for which he has a deep affinity. His works are included in private collections throughout the United States.

     "When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion." (Darby Bannard)