About the Artist
H. Burdetta Juliani never knows exactly what she is going to paint until she steps in front of a canvas. She begins with a few colors and strokes, and soon a painting emerges with its unique style and feeling. Her paintings are a concert of contemporary fantasy and impressionism, while others exhibit more realism.
Though Burdetta began her artistic journey using pen and ink and watercolors in her younger years, her current works are created with acrylics on canvas. As she stands in front of her canvas, her paints express her happiness. As each painting emerges, her mind positions and repositions the flower, the field, or the scene that is forming. Her instinct is to create a feeling first, and that may be born from the mix of a new color, or the emergence of a flower, a stem, a vine, or a wandering path.
Color plays an integral part in Burdetta’s art. An unfortunate accident, which threatened the sight in both of her eyes, motivated Burdetta to travel and put to memory all of the beauty of nature. After a successful surgery, Burdetta was so appreciative that she could see the brightness of colors in the world around her, she experienced an urgency to pick up her paints once again, expressing her happiness and providing her with a sense of freedom.
Memories of the countryside of Southern France and Tuscan Italian villages influence many of Burdetta’s works. Her mind’s eye kept each scene as vivid and brilliant as the light of France and Italy, allowing her to put these memories to canvas.
Whether her work leads one down a country lane, through a wine vineyard, or offers the opportunity to gaze at a landscape and enjoy the depth and beauty of flowers, the viewer is taken well beyond the canvas. Burdetta’s colors and strokes paint a sense of joy and happiness, yet serenity as well.
Burdetta is a local self-taught artist whose studio and home are in Wellesley, MA. When Burdetta is not painting, you can find her making mischief with her five grandsons. She also loves to take longs walks along a brook path or sandy beach, and to cook surrounded by her three children, grandsons, and good friends.