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Pat Walker

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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. Pat, born at home in Tippah County, grew up in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, a small Delta farming community. Her father, Martin Walker was a farmer. Her mother, Lola Wiggs Walker, who introduced her to art, was also a poet of some renown. From an early age, Pat was aware of the style of painting that “took her breath away“ even if she could not put a name to it until much later. After years of painting, studying with instructors who were also mentors, Pat has honed her talent from which her particular “language of art” has emerged.
Recently Pat was selected as one of the artists for the Eastern Regional Show with Oil Painters of America. She was also selected as one of the artists for Richeson75/Still Life for 2008. Pat has received awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (New York); the Mississippi Arts Commission (Jackson, MS); The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (New York); and the Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans). She was also honored to be a blue-ribbon winner for PBS. Pat has appeared in numerous local and national art publications including Southwest Art, Gallery’s & Artists of the South, and Delta Magazine. Recently she was featured in the October and December issues of American Art Collector. Pat was also included in the hardback issue of International Richeson Still Life 2008.

Her work is held in private and corporate collections throughout the USA and Canada.