These drawings and sculptures are conjectured portraits of Robert Burns from the age of about four or five to his death in 1796. They refer to times of happiness and love, depression and recurring illness, as well as his ideas about politics, poetry and the cult of celebrity.
I hope there is humour along with pathos in these works and that as a related series will help to broaden the perhaps narrow perception we currently have of the National Poet through the visual language of art, in the way that new biographical research and interpretation are revealing in the written word.
P.B. 2010
