Dave Burns, a native of Montana, has lived and worked as an architect in Tucson, Arizona for the last thirty-five years. After working as an architect for over forty years, Dave retired to pursue one of his dreams -- painting. Mostly self-taught, his pastels and oil paintings represent the diversity of the landscape of the West and his love of this magnificent environment. The power of nature is ever present in the quiet and in the solitude of his walks and inspires him to share his emotional connections to these special places through his paintings.