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Corrigans Bay, 2002

Corrigans Bay, 2002

John R Walker
Gouache and ink on Chinese paper
Q759.9944/7

This concertina artist book documents Corrigans Bay, from Corrigans Head to Burrah Burrah Point, on Myall Lake just north of Newcastle. Walker completed this work while Artist in Residence at the Bundanon Trust on the Shoalhaven River near Nowra in November 2002. Walker included geographic location co-ordinates alongside his gouache rendering of the landscape.

Courtesy of Utopia Art Sydney

John is very knowledgeable about art history, environmental history and can reel off the Latin names of most native plants within the region. For him, the Australian landscape is not the stage, it is rather, the principal actor.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/paintingaustralia/stories/braidwood.htm


John R Walker is a five-time Archibald finalist and Wynne Prize finalist.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/paintingaustralia/stories/braidwood.htm


“I immerse myself in a particular place when I’m painting and feel its story.  I move towards a resolution, a summing up of that story.”


John R Walker was born in Sydney where he lived and exhibited until a deepening and passionate commitment to 'painting the experience of the landscape' led him to move to Braidwood five years ago.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/paintingaustralia/stories/braidwood.htm