LARGE PAINTINGS ITW

Imagine living in a world where one can point a finger and the earth moves. Such is the will of the paint brush, the pencil or the pen. Imagine having a huge expanse of mind and colour like an ocean which changes you as you change it. We choose these stepping stones to cross the stream. And as one grows older the stream gets wider and wider. The water around faster, fervid, we must go on. Programmed souls to look back as we learn and blindly go forward feeling like coelenterates intent on discovery.

Youth, that glass of divine wisdom, chases the rainbow as did my brush with the tangle. So much so that I ran to that stream and used it to write my story.

Elated by the connections I could plainly see, I mixed and mixed the colours blending and that Spring became a personal ethos which fashioned itself, omeba-like and floated me along. I began to paint and write about the five states of water. To describe them and how they moved through us all, leaving and inspiring memory and sharing new thoughts. Hence my use of the symbol of the ‘ever-fish’ which connects the clouds to the sea, the ethereal to the physical.

The playground of the artist is far beyond the reach of science for accident is the way we learn, unless its a really bad accident. Now as science dabbles into preserving memories of individuals in crystallised ionised jars of frozen battery water, so people can watch from the outside. Maybe we can be thrown in the paper packaging pulp machine to feed the toxic seas and help the starving child all at once!

Therefore there can be no doubt that the artist makes a scientist but a scientist cant make an artist, after all nobody ever died from looking at a painting.

As the artist explains, his father, Ralph Trafford Walker, was a war artist in New Guinea and Bougainville during the second W War. He sculpted the bronze doors on the Mitchell Library in Sydney when only 28 years old. These18 panels were recognised as being the first to give Aboriginal people dignity. He was the best draftsman in Australia and is recognised as such to this day and is considered by many as Australia's hidden artistic treasure. His wife Edith Jean Walker with her sister Betty Maloney, who was a botanical illustrator, are recognised Australia wide as being the pioneers of the Australian Bush Gardens Movement, Edith was a writer, sculptor, potter, illustrator, landscape designer. Neither of Walker's parents wanted him to paint and never encouraged him to do so and he says they became noticeably quiet when he began to stretch canvases the size of double garage doors on the back verandah. Walker had his first exhibition age 15 and his second at 21 which featured 14 canvases (see here and more) and 14 smaller works. He was written up in many newspapers and was interviewed by TV and radio. Now here in Shopify the world can see.