Jon Dee Burton

Hi, Everyone,

A little about me: I was born in SLC Utah in 1945. I’m second oldest of 5 boys born to David Earl and Ora Daybell Burton. My dad was a nationally known artist and I grew up thinking “that’s what you do, you do art.” It’s like eating or brushing your teeth, it’s a really huge key part of life. And I’ve believed that since I was three. My parents said they gave me a big piece of paper when I was 3 and I filled it full with one building and colored it red. I’ve been drawing and painting mostly buildings ever since. When my teen friends were experimenting with destructive behaviors I was home painting. When things got bad and I was drafted into the army and went to Vietnam I was given art projects to do even then. When my marriage fell apart after the war I drew and painted to get through it.

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A little about my art work: I’ve worked with some amazing and wonderful people over the years who have accessed my love of art to visually enhance their lives and the lives of many others they worked with in media communication and public education.

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A little about why I paint: I’ve been privileged to be able to bring joy to many others through the years by showing them how beautiful life is, even through the dark difficult events in history. Like the painting on the wall at Flowerstone of the USS Indianapolis. It was destroyed by a Japanese Submarine leaving over 1000 men in the water for 5 days without life rafts, food or water. Depicting visually with paint that horrific event brought the truth forward that no matter what we go through there is purpose, even beauty and in this case huge miracles. Over 300 men were miraculously saved because a pilot in a plane high above had to fix something outside his plane and happened to see heads bobbing in the water below.

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Enjoy the show at Flowerstone.

Jon

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Michelyn Mann Burton

Hi, my name in Mikki. I was born in the West-side of SLC.

Art has been my friend, joy, therapist and meditation.

My training? Every 5 year-old with whom I’ve shared art supplies has been part of my training; also the women I work with in the SL County jail who allow me to Analyze them through their drawings and writings.

I have had crushes and obsessions with the impressionists like Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Villard, Bonnard, and Japanese print artists… the list goes on.

I mostly like to draw faces – in watercolor, colored pencil, and pastel. And flowers using mixed mediums. I also enjoy collage.

I “doodle” to help me think, focus and listen.