EXTENDED to March 19, 2023
Walker backpacks throughout his hometown region of Teton Valley, Idaho documenting oil sketches
on site and uses those in the studio to recapture the liveliness of the moment on a larger canvas. He
also travels to Northern California, Utah, and other places throughout the West on painting
expeditions.
He says that he chooses scenes that seem to stop him in his tracks. “It might be a pleasing
composition, a unique and beautiful design as shadows come together to form their own pattern, or it
might be a combination of colors as nature displays an array of hues,” said Walker.
Many of these barns and hills are very familiar to Walker. He knows the change of seasons, the
landmarks, and some of the property owners. He returns to some of the vistas regularly, capturing a
new angle or detail each time. A scene he might know intimately sometimes catches him off guard
with a fresh detail he hadn’t seen before.
“Without realizing it Bart Walker is more than a landscape artist, but an Agrarian Artist at heart,” says
curator, Amanda Mobley Guenther. “He often chooses scenes that show a direct relationship of
man’s tenure to the land.”
Check out Bart’s site here.
See the Western Art Collector Magazine article here.