Fine Watercolour of a Toad, Signed and Dated, Mounted, Framed and Glazed, Measures with frame 15 inches x 13 inches approx.
Jonathan Walker - British Contemporary Sporting Artist
Walker was born in 1966 and raised near the market town of Leek in the heart of the Staffordshire Moorlands. He spent much of his childhood exploring the countryside in the company of this father, Keith, a competent painter himself. In 1991 he had the good taste to move to Devon!
The inspiration of Exmoor, Dartmoor and the countryside around Exeter has given new impetus to his interest in depicting the badgers, foxes and voles that his naturalist's eye observes everywhere. His animals are always rooted in the soil, as much a part of the landscape as the sky and the trees. He rare ability to give to each of them their unique characteristics and personas, while dressing them up in old cast off human garments never robs them of their intrinsic "animalness". Although rooted in the heritage of English illustration it is Jonathan's unerring draughtsman ship and his humour that nevertheless makes his work unmistakably contemporary.
