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The Art of Randy Walker – A Study in Stages
Between the larger-than-life charcoal portraits, emerging stone sculptures, and the pastel still-life paintings, the businessman has made room for the artist. Prior to founding Paradigm – Models for Communication, a graphic design firm in 1991, I was a vice president and creative in advertising, a freelance illustrator, and graphic designer in Chicago, San Francisco, and Kalamazoo.
The latest series, “A Study in Stages,” is a simple statement about some pears living in my studio, and some of the stages we went through. Pastel painting is an engaging medium for me because there is direct and immediate contact with the medium and surface.
My intent was to translate what I saw into something that brings about a fresh feeling or a thought about a common object – pears. In this series of paintings, size plays an important part in our perceptions in relation to the human scale, as does the relationship of objects, color, and texture.
If these three by four foot paintings have a story, it may be that sometimes even fragile bumps and scars didn’t show up until they matured. When new, they would appear to stand uniformly in the market, not quite ripe, always looking firm and crisp. In the studio, comparisons became evident as they ripened – innocence to experience, asexual to sensual, and undefiled to corrupt. Each had similarities, but always concluded as an individual.
For more information about this series of paintings, and other artwork, please contact:
rwalker@randywalker-art.com
Randy Walker
326 W. Kalamazoo ave.
Studio 424
Kalamazoo, MI 490076
Phone: 269-207-4919
Web site: www.randywalker-art.com
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