My “Continuous Line Drawing” style has been developed through many observed links with nature and a loose connection with mathematics.  Most of my paintings and drawings are of animals, but there are portraits of people, landscapes and abstract subjects.  

When I was 15 I won a prize in a national competition set up by Sir John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery.  

Originally, I painted with poster colours on card, after starting continuous line drawings in 1965 (triggered by doodling when bored at work).  Northern Screenprints Ltd in Pudsey offered to produce prints of 4 animals and I sold another 4 designs to greetings card printers J Arthur Dixon (Isle of Wight).  Between 1969 and 1971 I lived in Nottingham and was accepted into the Nottingham Society of Artists.  I travelled to London on the train, with pictures under his arms, to enter Open Exhibitions and had 10 accepted, including at the national Society on The Mall.

I started painting again in 2012, after a gap of 40 years, and was a finalist in “Britain’s Got Artists” later that year and joined this club at that time.  I am also a member of Stainbeck Arts Club in Leeds and the Association of Animal Artists, and gained their “Creative Creatures” award in 2014.  In 2018 I was selected for the St Gemma’s 40th Anniversary Leeds Exhibition. 

Mathematicians from Cambridge University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California Irvine and Tokyo University have taken a keen interest in my work.

Nine Art Clubs in Yorkshire have invited me to do Demonstrations or Workshops and I have had many commissions to paint animals or portraits in my style. 

Web site.    www.mickburton.co.uk

e-mail.        mick.burton2@ntlworld.com