Virginia Burdon is a London-based painter who graduated in 2012 with a BA Hons Fine Art from the City and Guilds of London Art School. She is a Figurative painter with a keen interest in history painting, and often draws upon archive material for her reference sources. Recent projects include a work consisting of 44 small portraits of the US presidents from images decorating a domestic coffee cup. Previously she has done works based on pioneer photographs of the Canterbury Settlement in her native New Zealand, and the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. She is also a portraitist.
Before attending art school Virginia worked for the United Kingdom government information service in its radio and press office divisions. She has close connections with the United States: her father was born in West Virginia, and she has lived and worked in Washington DC.