Anne Sargent Walker

Artist Works

Jacob's Ladder - 2007
12" x 12" Oil, acrylic, graphite and wallpaper on panel

Artist Bio

2007 Summer Show
Introducing...

Artist Statement

I am interested in our relationship to nature, in evolution, individuality and separateness.  If all matter has been here since the Big Bang forming and deconstructing and reforming into something new again and again, what then is the nature of our differentness as a species and as an individual? What is our connectedness to all things, both organic and inorganic? What does it mean that we share 75% of our genes with a mouse or a worm, or that the secrets of the genes are found in proteins, of which there are thousands in every gene?  We are both stardust and former kings; earth, air, fire and water.

My latest work is built up slowly, beginning with abstract layers of color into which I might scratch or paint the suggestion of forms- cells, eggs, skeins of protein. Some have layers of old wallpaper in them, something ‘man made’, which is suggestive of cultural, pastoral attitudes towards Nature. Over this I paint images both representational and abstract of birds or animals, sometimes humans, to suggest a relationship between us and the larger world of nature in a visual, thoughtful, and sometimes, humorous way.
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Anne Sargent Walker earned her Master"s Degree from Tufts University, Medford, MA.  She teaches drawing and painting at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA.