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CANADIANA
I live in France, but like a migrating goose, I am never away from Canada for long. On this my Canadiana page are over 100 drawings and silhouettes that form a portrait of Canadian life and places, peoples and creatures. It includes the unique Silhouette Diary I made in the Spring of 2003 during a coast-to-coast journey - from Halifax, Novia Scotia to Vancouver, British Columbia - sliding across the continent like a wild hockey puck. Two Horsemen of the Apocalypse were riding at the time: War began in Iraq and the SARS virus broke out in Toronto. But also snow fell upon silent forests and bears awoke skinny in the great wide land.


		CANADIANA I live in France, but like a migrating goose, I am never away from Canada for long. On this my Canadiana page are over 100 drawings and silhouettes that form a portrait of Canadian life and places, peoples and creatures. It includes the unique Silhouette Diary I made in the Spring of 2003 during a coast-to-coast journey - from Halifax, Novia Scotia to Vancouver, British Columbia - sliding across the continent like a wild hockey puck. Two Horsemen of the Apocalypse were riding at the time: War began in Iraq and the SARS virus broke out in Toronto. But also snow fell upon silent forests and bears awoke skinny in the great wide land.

PENCILS 1977-2003
The Pencil is the most versatile instrument an artist can hold. It is also the most personal, the most intimate, the most self-revealing. A Pencil drawing is also more deliberate: the unconscious was there with the idea that came before the drawing, but not in the execution; this is why a Pencil drawing is more personal, more chosen, why there is more frankness in it. There is no cheating with a pencil. The Pencil drawing is the true, unguarded performance. It itself is the idea, best expressed with the greatest tool ever devised by man: the humble Pencil.
This will be an archive and ongoing record of my works in Pencil, starting with a selection of drawings made on a coast-to-coast journey across Canada this Spring, and other pencils done in 2003. Next is a miscellany of pencils done in the previous quarter century. Also included is a collection of the drawings I have made featuring Jesus over the past twenty-five years. Another sequence of drawings tells the story of Samson.


		PENCILS 1977-2003 The Pencil is the most versatile instrument an artist can hold. It is also the most personal, the most intimate, the most self-revealing. A Pencil drawing is also more deliberate: the unconscious was there with the idea that came before the drawing, but not in the execution; this is why a Pencil drawing is more personal, more chosen, why there is more frankness in it. There is no cheating with a pencil. The Pencil drawing is the true, unguarded performance. It itself is the idea, best expressed with the greatest tool ever devised by man: the humble Pencil. This will be an archive and ongoing record of my works in Pencil, starting with a selection of drawings made on a coast-to-coast journey across Canada this Spring, and other pencils done in 2003. Next is a miscellany of pencils done in the previous quarter century. Also included is a collection of the drawings I have made featuring Jesus over the past twenty-five years. Another sequence of drawings tells the story of Samson.

PYRENEAN LIFE, LA VIE PYRÉNÉENNE
Steve Walker's exhibition of pictures describing the Ariège region of France in which he now lives: its landscape, wildlife and people. Pencils, pastels, ink drawings, oils and silhouettes. With commentary by the artist in English and French.
Exposition des dessins de Steve Walker, représentant l'Ariège où il habite maintenant: le terrain, les animaux, les gens. Dessins au crayon, au pastel, à l'encre, peintures à l'huile et des silhouettes. Avec commentaire bilingue de l'artist.


		PYRENEAN LIFE, LA VIE PYRÉNÉENNE Steve Walker's exhibition of pictures describing the Ariège region of France in which he now lives: its landscape, wildlife and people. Pencils, pastels, ink drawings, oils and silhouettes. With commentary by the artist in English and French. Exposition des dessins de Steve Walker, représentant l'Ariège où il habite maintenant: le terrain, les animaux, les gens. Dessins au crayon, au pastel, à l'encre, peintures à l'huile et des silhouettes. Avec commentaire bilingue de l'artist.

SHADOW THEATRE
The silhouettes could be seen as the simplest thing I do. I cut out pieces of black paper and stick them down. But, just like a radio play, where one major sense is removed to heighten others, the silhoutettes stir the imagination in their unique way. They are an endless shadow theatre, flashing with mysteries. Everything is left out but the shape and the idea, which is what lets the spirit of a silhouette roam.


		SHADOW THEATRE The silhouettes could be seen as the simplest thing I do. I cut out pieces of black paper and stick them down. But, just like a radio play, where one major sense is removed to heighten others, the silhoutettes stir the imagination in their unique way. They are an endless shadow theatre, flashing with mysteries. Everything is left out but the shape and the idea, which is what lets the spirit of a silhouette roam.

DRAWINGS AND STORIES
My first memory of life is drawing, sitting on the kitchen floor with my crayons. I draw every day. Drawing is like breath. Some subjects I return to again and again, thousands of times. Pencil, brush and ink, pen and ink, pastel, charcoal. When I write books or plays my mind is busy making drawings of them to show me what I'm about. But the drawings are also plays and books, with the rest of the tale implied.


		DRAWINGS AND STORIES My first memory of life is drawing, sitting on the kitchen floor with my crayons. I draw every day. Drawing is like breath. Some subjects I return to again and again, thousands of times. Pencil, brush and ink, pen and ink, pastel, charcoal. When I write books or plays my mind is busy making drawings of them to show me what I'm about. But the drawings are also plays and books, with the rest of the tale implied.

PRINTS
I made my first linocut print sitting on the floor of a barn in Ogle village, Northumberland, in my teens - it is included on this page. I have been busy with prints ever since. For me a print can be as significant a statement as any of my plays or novels. Each print is a story, a poem, the text of a neverending drama.


		PRINTS I made my first linocut print sitting on the floor of a barn in Ogle village, Northumberland, in my teens - it is included on this page. I have been busy with prints ever since. For me a print can be as significant a statement as any of my plays or novels. Each print is a story, a poem, the text of a neverending drama.

WALKER IN TIROL
The Austrian Tirol is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. But it is the people and their interaction with the land that makes it such a fascinating place. Springtime is the most peaceful time in the mountains. The skiers have gone home. The land recovers from winter. In their burrows the marmots have already dreamed the year to come.


		WALKER IN TIROL The Austrian Tirol is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. But it is the people and their interaction with the land that makes it such a fascinating place. Springtime is the most peaceful time in the mountains. The skiers have gone home. The land recovers from winter. In their burrows the marmots have already dreamed the year to come.

Oil pastels done on a visit to the birthplace of Cezanne, Aix-en-Provence.


		Oil pastels done on a visit to the birthplace of Cezanne, Aix-en-Provence.

HORRIBLE DOG
Drawings of a horrible French dog who haunts in the Pyrenean town of Ax les Thermes.


	HORRIBLE DOG Drawings of a horrible French dog who haunts in the Pyrenean town of Ax les Thermes.

THE BAGUETTE-THOWER
Four different drawings of the same profoundly French subject: a man throwing a baguette to someone at a window.


	THE BAGUETTE-THOWER Four different drawings of the same profoundly French subject: a man throwing a baguette to someone at a window.

Recently in the Pyrenean mountain town of Ax-les-Thermes, near where I live, the great transforming project of building a cable-car began. Through October to December, I have been making drawings of its progress day by day, recording its effects and its participants.

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