Dee Walker
London, United Kingdom
Dee Walker's work draws inspiration from the natural world, directly incorporating pigments from her surroundings. She feels a deep need to immerse herself in a landscape or chosen space, capturing its essence within her paint studies and paintings.
Walker is fascinated by the visceral, addictive qualities of paint, especially oil paint. She describes it as breathing, pushing, marking time, and telling its own story. Her role is to hold onto that initial sense of place she encountered.
It's important to Walker that the viewer can witness the painting's process, with exposed decision-making and moments of surface tension. She relates to Hegel's statement that 'One sees in painting that which is active in what drives us.' For Walker, this manifests as a co-existence between the paint itself and her experience of a place.