It's amazing that as much as Deborah Walker's paintings speak to the uncertain times we live in, most of them contain a solitary environment that were painted years before. In the vein of other painters we love that balance figurative and surrealist elements (Prudence Flint, Julie T Curtiss to name a few), Walker's work has an enigmatic, almost dream like quiet to them. The Australian artist has been painting and exhibiting for decades,
Writer Kevin Hart captures Deborah's work perfectly:"(Her) images come to us from very far away. It is as though they took an infinite time to reach us. What we see is at once clear and utterly mysterious. Here, clarity is the mode in which enigma or a mystery comes into view. We see things, to be sure. We see them as though for the first time because none of them has been stripped of (their) unique strangeness. . ."
