Elodie Burls

Artistheantidote.

Art is the antidote.

I paint because I know no better way to process the world around me. The beauty and the pain. Also, it brings me joy.

The Artist

My only job is to listen.

Elodie Burls in her studio, working on a canvas


Mostly I paint what needs to come out. Not a very poetic way to put it, but as accurate as I can be. I show up repeatedly and then I listen as well as I can. Sometime I can’t hear, then I page through National Geographics or search for interesting images online, or watch the squirrels chase each other in the trees outside my studio. But when I can hear, I sort of ‘feel’ where the next mark needs to be and then I just stay in conversation for as long as I can.

I am pretty convinced that spending time in nature and the act of making is what is missing and what can potentially help us fix the mess we’ve created.

I love liminality, playing with uncertainty, and I never want to try and answer questions with my work. It’s more about playing with questions and practicing okayness with not having answers.
Glass and reflections show up a lot, and nature. I am tickled by the point where man made structures overlap with nature. Perhaps there is something post all of this that looks symbiotic. A girl can dream.

About the Artist

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Recent Works

Selected Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Holding, Still

99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town · April 2026

Contained

Knysna Fine Art Gallery, Knysna

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