Rebecca Burman – violinist

Rebecca has played with all of the UK’s leading period instrument orchestras, spending the majority of her long career as a principal player with the Academy of Ancient Music. She is a current member of the Dunedin Consort and now also the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
As well as a musician, Rebecca is a visual artist (using the name Rebecca J Burman), teaches, works at the Cambridge Junction with young people with complex needs, and is a facilitator for the international initiative Mothers Who Make – a peer support group for all those balancing the dual roles of mother and maker.
Alongside this, she writes a blog about living with chronic illness, mental health, and visual art, which can be found at rebeccajburman.com

What has creating art meant to you over the last year?

Having my visual art practice has been crucial to me over not just the past year, but since mid-2019, when I was forced to stop work due to needing major surgery for chronic illness – I was just ready to go back to work when Covid hit.
For me having a creative output is not just ‘nice’ or ‘lucky’, I think it’s an innate need, and so I class myself as fortunate to have been able to find another way to express myself in light of the complete decimation of the music world in the past year.

Chain Print Tea Towel

These designs started life as work for A Letter in Mind exhibition in the OXO Tower in London. You can now purchase them on linen-union tea-towels. Both green and red chain design are 55% linen 45% cotton mix and are made in the UK. They measure approximately 78cm x 48cm and have a hanging hook.

£12.50 for one or £22 for two

Empty Cuba and Flowers Tea Towels

Empty Cuba is part of a set of designs inspired by listening to colleagues performing a gig including Cuban songs.

Flowers is inspired by my work with Mothers-Who-Make – crucial work offering vital peer support for creative mothers.

You can now purchase them both on linen-union . Both printed on 55% linen 45% cotton mix and are made in the UK. They measure approximately 78cm x 48cm and have a hanging hook.

£12.50 for one or £22 for two

Cuba

Giclée Print on Canson Aquarelle Rag Paper

50 x 70cm

Unframed

Hannah

Giclée Print on Canson Aquarelle Rag Paper

Hannah is part of a commission of a set of three poster-sized prints. She chose 3 small hand-drawn prints that had to undergo vectorisation (and me learning to use photoshop!) to become these large-sized prints. Hannah, one of the set of three (see my website at rebeccajburman.com), is a Giclée print, on Canson Aquarelle Rag paper. This print will fit standard sized frames, making it easy and convenient to frame at home.

50 x 70cm

Manuscript

Giclée Print on Canson Aquarelle Rag Paper

27 x 30cm

Unframed