Opening Reception: First Friday, June 6 (5-9pm)
Exhibition Dates: June 6 - July 31
Gallery Talk: “Second Saturday”, July 11 (6pm)
PONSHOP is proud to present Sweet Season, a solo exhibition by Courtney Burke featuring new works in pyrography and oil. This deeply personal collection explores themes of fertility, femininity, and the shifting identity of motherhood with symbolic still lifes rendered in Burke’s signature process of wood burning and oil painting.
Courtney Burke is a Fredericksburg-based artist working at the intersection of traditional craft and fine art. Her distinctive technique combines drawing, pyrography (wood burning), and oils to build luminous surfaces full of warmth, texture, and memory. Sweet Season reflects on the artist’s own journey through early motherhood. This body of work marks the physical, emotional, and spiritual transitions that have unfolded through pregnancy, postpartum, and the quiet conclusion of her childbearing years.
From milk-filled shells and pearl-dotted fruit to collared shirts kissed in red and mirrored glasses of suspended sweetness, these works examine the body as both vessel and offering. Each painting invites the viewer into a space of intimate reflection-where tenderness and symbolism are rendered with tactile, deliberate beauty.
Learn more about Courtney’s work at courtneyburke.art
