Jim Bourke

Jim Bourke is a Toronto based figurative painter. The wax-based medium of encaustic informs his art. The works are bold which capture the slightest gestures and nuances of the hand. His paintings are a series of indecisions and revisions each acting as an independent process revealing the visible traces of its construction. He has studied fine art at York University, graduated from the OCAD.  He studied computer animation at Sheridan College. He is a Board member of the artists’ collective, The Propeller Gallery. He has won awards in numerous juried exhibitions including OSA, TOAE, Mississauga Art Gallery, and the RCA. He was in the reality TV show Star Portraits and a finalist in the Kingston Prize for Portraiture. His paintings can be found in various private and corporate collections.