JAMES FAURE WALKER

Recent Paintings

Opening reception: Friday, 17 May 2019, 6-8pm (rsvp)

18 May – 15 Jun 2019

Felix & Spear, 71 St Mary’s Road, London W5 5RG

felixandspear.com

Little Tern, Low Newton, 2015, 109 x 130 cm, oil on canvas

Sheba, 2019, 130 x 158 cm, oil on canvas

Giraffe, 2019, 61 x 76 cm, oil on canvas Park, Night, 2019, 66 x 81 cm, oil on canvas

The Lion, 2019, 66 x 81 cm, oil on canvas The Clock Maker, 2018, 91 x 122 cm, oil on canvas

Marsh Harrier, 2016, 137 x 173 cm, oil on canvas

Rusty Door, 2019, 117 x 86 cm, oil on canvas

Parade, 2019, 102 x 204 cm, oil on canvas

Lapwings, 2015, 91 x 102 cm, archival inkjet print

Rolled Garden, 2018, 72 x 58 cm, archival inkjet print

Sky Radio, 2018, 56 x 76 cm, gouache

Good Fortune, 2018, 76 x 56 cm, gouache

Biography

James Faure Walker studied at St Martins (1966-70) and the Royal College of Art (1970-

1972). Solo exhibitions include Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery (1985), Colville Place

Gallery (1998, 2000), Galerie Wolf Lieser, Berlin (2003), ARB Cambridge (2015).

Group exhibitions include the Hayward Annual (1979), John Moores (1982, 2002),

Serpentine Summer Show (1983), and regular appearances at SIGGRAPH, USA, since

1995, and DAM Gallery Berlin. He began developing computer graphics alongside his

painting in 1988. He won the ‘Golden Plotter’ prize at Computerkunst, Gladbeck,

Germany in 1998. He has eleven works in the Victoria and Albert Museum, where his

work was featured in ‘Digital Pioneers’ in 2009. His book, ‘Painting the Digital River:

How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer’, was published by Prentice Hall (USA)

in 2006 and awarded a New England Book Show Award. He was a founder of Artscribe

magazine in 1976, editing it for eight years. Until 2014 he was Reader in Painting and

the Computer at Chelsea, University of the Arts. In 2013 he won the Royal Watercolour

Society Award. Currently he is the Honorary Curator of the RWS.

Critics have commented on the lyricism and exuberant colour of James Faure Walker’s

paintings. They have mentioned his independent stand, using photos of pedestrians,

birds, shops, at the same time as having developed an ‘abstract’ language. As Stuart

Morgan wrote in 1985, “His doubt may lead to one of those careers which bridges older

and newer practice, and which opens more doors than it closes”.

Writing recently of watercolour, James Faure Walker said: “I want my pictures to look

fresh, luminous, caught in the moment, but also off guard and unexplained. I admire

Turner’s ambition, the expertise, the freedom - also Cezanne and Sam Francis. They

were not watercolour specialists, but I cannot imagine their paintings without that watery

touch. Nor can I imagine how I could work now without using digital paint alongside

other media.

James Faure Walker is represented in London by Felix & Spear.

Felix & Spear Gallery, 71 St. Mary’s Road, London W5 5RG

T: 020 8566 1574 e: info@felixandspear.com

© 2019 James Faure Walker, courtesy of Felix & Spear.