Burch recently completed a Garland of Skulls, ten commissioned works by a major New York collector. Her artistic influences include Contemporary
art, Italian art, Japanese aesthetics and Tantric painting. In 2010, Burch was involved in the creation of Copper Colored Mountain Arts, www.ccmarts.org , a non-profit arts organization in Ann Arbor, Michigan offering poetry, art and music classes and events.
Burch was born in Manhattan in 1972, raised in Nashville, Tennessee and currently lives and works in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After fourteen years in New York
City, Burch and her husband, artist Rob Davis, relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan to study with Lama Traktung Rinpoche at Tsogyelgar Dharma Center.
She received her B.F.A. in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994 and was a participant in the RISD European Honors Program in Rome, Italy. After studying, traveling and working abroad, mostly in France and Italy, she completed her Masters in Painting at New York University in 1998. Pursuing her interest in the Taoist view of energetic anatomy and
healing, she studied Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at the Swedish Institute in New York from 2006-2009. This view of energy and embodiment combined with the Tantric Buddhist view, has been influential in her recent
paintings which contemplate the sensual, poetic dimension of figuration in painting.
