Pat Walker
Pat Walker is recognized as one of the most gifted contemporary Southern painters. Her highly representational portraits, still-lifes and landscapes are masterful exercises of chiaroscuro, the manipulation of light and dark. The contrast of light and its absence, evocative of Rembrandt’s use of chiaroscuro, is the defining component of her style. By means of it she aims “to create mystery and emotion.” These two elements are the real subjects of her work. Her classic representations of fruit, jug, table and cloth are windows opening to domestic...more
