Bill Burton emigrated with his family to Sydney, NSW in 1964.\u00c2\u00a0 It was in Australia that he made the decision to try to be a professional artist rather than painting as a hobby.\u00c2\u00a0 He was commissioned to produce works by a gallery in Bondi, his style of painting very different to his later work.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, Burton painted under the name of Angelo Perrini while in Australia;\u00c2\u00a0 his output was prolific and he painted typically Australian scenes of barren outback using heavy layers of oil in bright colours, often applying the paint with a spatula rather than a brush. His most recognised work involves scenes of pastoral and wild Australia, featuring the vibrant, even harsh colours of Australian summers.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Burton returned to the UK in 1965 when his first original oil painting of West Mersea entitled Evening Gold was reproduced by Soloman & Whitehead Limited, London.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the first of many paintings reproduced by them and marked a very successful partnership for a number of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bill Burton emigrated with his family to Sydney, NSW in 1964.\u00c2\u00a0 It was in Australia that he made the decision to try to be a professional artist rather than painting as a hobby.\u00c2\u00a0 He was commissioned to produce works by a gallery in Bondi, his style of painting very different to his later work.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, Burton painted under the name of Angelo Perrini while in Australia;\u00c2\u00a0 his output was prolific and he painted typically Australian scenes of barren outback using heavy layers of oil in bright colours, often applying the paint with a spatula rather than a brush. His most . . . → Read More: Bill Burton in Australia<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinreddy.net\/billburton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinreddy.net\/billburton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinreddy.net\/billburton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinreddy.net\/billburton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinreddy.net\/billburton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/martinreddy.net\/billburton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinreddy.net\/billburton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}