Emma Walker

‘A sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man.’
William Blake

Emma Walker’s practice consistently engages with the natural world. An explorer at heart Walker has informed her visual language through extensive travel and an inbuilt desire to constantly engage with the world around her. This passion has resulted in a practice that displays a keen sensitivity for colour, form and texture. Walker’s paintings are multi-layered, being as much about the medium of paint as with an experience of the Australian landscape and represent the outcome of a career-long obsession with the process of observing and respecting nature.

Walker expands, “These patterns also feel connected to my interest in quantum physics and Vedantic Absolutist philosophy, which both appear to be saying the same thing: that all things are one. All things are completely part
of a limitless intrinsic whole. That any sense of separation that we feel is a mental construct. On an energetic and molecular level these separations do not actually exist. So the grid, the honeycomb, the patchwork for me are symbolic of this.”