Author Description

John Walker's large-format plein air paintings are existential images, like Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (1952), and Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer Above Sea and Fog (1818). Well into his seventies, Walker drags his signature-sized 7-by-5 1/2 foot canvases through the woods to a spit of land on his property at Seal Point, Maine. Looking out onto the Atlantic, Walker confronts his emotionally charged subjects: the land, sea, sky, sun, and moon. Exhibition: Alexandre Gallery, NYC, USA (03.11.-22.12.2015).