Pat Walker is a highly gifted contemporary Southern painter. She 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).
Walker honed her talent and formulated her particular “language of art” by years of studying with instructors who were also mentors. Her finely painted portraits, still-lifes and landscapes are masterful exercises of chiaroscuro – the manipulation of light and dark.
Her art has been recognized with its inclusion in the Eastern Regional Show with Oil Painters of America. She was also selected as one of the artists for Richeson75/Still Life for 2008. She was also honored to be a blue-ribbon winner for PBS. He work 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.
Pat, born at home in Tippah County, grew up in the small Mississippi Delta farming community of Rolling Fork. Her father, Martin Walker was a farmer. Her mother, Lola Wiggs Walker, was a poet of some renown and was responsible for introducing Pat to art. 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.
Now she creates striking images that take others’ breaths away.