Artist Spotlight Series – Len Burgess

Spotlight on Len Burgess

Len has lived on the North Shore for the last 43 years with wife Joanne, who was a Landmark School special ed teacher and is a painter and graduate of Mass Art. They have four sons. Len grew up in Hingham MA and after graduating from Hingham High School he attended Mass College of Art where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree majoring in Advertising Design. In his early career he was employed as an artist and then art director for two Boston Advertising agencies, designing and creating ads, booklets, brochures, and trade show booths. His artistic abilities were also used to do renderings and illustrations of clients products, and services. He’s now retired after a 45 year career in the greater Boston area including 39 years operating his own company, Burgess Associates Inc. a graphic design/advertising company.

Len has been involved in photography since the age of 15, starting with an old box camera. He gained valuable photo experience through the years in his advertising and graphic design business supervising professional photographers and also taking photos himself. His quest for good closeup photography was realized with his first digital camera in 2006. Since then he has shot thousands of macro photos, many of which are of tiny ice crystal patterns which grow on the old storm windows in his house in winter. Because he loves the ocean and North Shore towns, many of his photos are of the sea, beaches, ships and wildlife, as well as native flowers, sunsets and moon shots. Other photo interests are abstract design, antique autos, WWII aircraft and insects.

As a member of the Essex Shipbuilding Museum he volunteers as a photographer and has been an instructor in 6 digital photography workshops at the Museum. Len is a member of the Rocky Neck Art Colony and contributes his photography on a regular basis to Good Morning Gloucester. He has won a dozen local and regional awards for excellence in graphic design and advertising. His nature, abstract and Schooner Festival photography has appeared in local newspapers, visitors guide pamphlets and on many websites. Len’s photos tend to celebrate the intricate beauty of nature in all its forms. View 2900 of his photos on Yahoo flickr… http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenbo/ or by 41 sets… http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenbo/sets/

You can see more of Len’s photography at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, East Gloucester during the Rocky Neck Holiday Art & Fine Crafts Festival

Saturdays and Sundays, Noon-4 PM

November 30 – December 29

http://www.rockyneckartcolony.org/winter.php

E.J. Lefavour