James Faure Walker
'Ideas and Music II: Evening'

Oil on canvas
137 x 244 cm

James Faure Walker was born in London in 1948. He studied at St. Martins School of Art 1966-70 and the Royal College of Art 1970-72. Since 1998 he has been integrating computer graphics into his painting, and he has exhibited regularly in computer art festivals, including ISEA, SIGGRAPH, ARCADE, Digital Salon New York, and Computerkunst, Gladbeck, where he was awarded the Golden Plotter Prize 1998. Recent one-person exhibitions include Colville Place Gallery 1998 and 2000 and Galerie der Gegenwart Wiesbaden 2000 and 2001. He is Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at Kingston University.

"For the past fourteen years I have been pretty much obsessed with bringing the creative joy of computer graphics into the murkier world of painting. I divide my time between oil paint and paint program and sometimes I dream of a magnificent hybrid. Most of the time I have to make do with what I have. In both the digital and the painted worlds I have been thinking a lot about drawing, about the unforced elegance of line, and about giving a rhythm to awkward forms.

Stuck for a title I was thumbing through my Wallace Stevens volume and liked the generality of the music references – the thought that the attempt to get things in their right place and order was itself an idea of just the right weight for the image."