Robert Walker

Biography of Robert M. Walker

I have been dabbling in art all my life. I worked in the field in my early adulthood, with a stint at Autry Brothers in Denver as a staff artist, and a short exposure in a stained glass window studio in Pasadena California. The need of raising a family, surviving to my current age, and eating, precluded the following of my dream. However, when I retired a few years ago, I picked up that dream where I had abandoned it forty years earlier.

I now have a small gallery, “The Stonewall”, in Loudonville, Ohio where I create, and display my works in graphite, acrylics, and watercolors, with occasional ventures into pastels, oils, pen and ink, and colored pencils. Several private galleries around the country also represent my work.

I have recently become interested in the Western Tribes of Native Americans. The reference material for most of the portraits that I do of them comes from the National Archives. I work in Graphite, watercolor, pastels, and acrylics. I try to depict the strength of character that many of these people displayed. I try to bring out that strength by pulling that character from their eyes and their body language.

My work has been displayed, and taken awards at Creative Images in Mt. Vernon, Shremshrock Gallery in Columbus, The Ashland Center for the Arts, and The Coburn Gallery at Ashland University. My work is also included in several private collections, both here in the States, and abroad.

Robert M Walker
The Western Artist
221 South Market Street
Loudonville, Ohio 44842