JONATHAN WALKER | Sleepy Supper
Watercolour
14 x 14 cms / 5½ x 5½ inches
Signed 'Jonathan Walker' (lower left)
Sleepy Supper by Jonathan Walker is a warm and gently humorous watercolour set within the earthy shelter of a badger’s burrow. Painted in rich browns and soft, natural tones, the scene centres on a badger dressed in plaid, quietly enjoying his sleepy evening meal. Walker’s distinctive white, curling washes of steam rise from the supper, suggesting comfort and a touch of magic within the underground space. A toad and a hedgehog look on with quiet curiosity, while a snail leaves its delicate trail across the table, adding to the sense of still life and storytelling.
Jonathan Walker grew up in the heart of the Staffordshire Moorlands. He spent much of his childhood exploring the countryside in the company of his father and it is this closeness to nature that has inspired his artistic career.
The badgers, foxes and voles that Walker witnesses in nature near his home in Dartmoor have inspired his masterful watercolours. Walker’s rare ability to give to each of the animals he depicts 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 draughtsmanship and his humour that nevertheless makes his work unmistakably contemporary. His pallet is true to the siennas and ochres of the real landscape, but his characters, however, are of the mould and grime of the soil, unsentimental and honest.
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