Featured Artist
Highline Heritage Museum

Night Weeds: Collage & Painting

Onview from: July 3rd through October 2nd

Artist Reception: August 7, 5-6:30pm August 7, 5-6:30pm

Location: Highline Heritage Museum 819 SW 152nd St. Burien, WA 98166

Artist Statement:
I draw and paint to understand how I feel and experience the world. When I draw from observation, I am not concerned with making a realistic image. Rather, my loose marks record where my attention goes and the physical feeling of being in a particular world. The marks on the paper are evidence of how my eye moves, as sensations and intuition pull my attention this way and that.

In this series of collages, I combine fast, intuitive mark-making with slow, contemplative observation. A potted plant inspired a series of loose and sloppy ink drawings and monotype prints. These, along with ink-soaked paper towels, became the raw materials for the finished works.

I arrange shapes to make connections and patterns that echo what I see and feel in nature. What emerges is a record of attention, of sensation, and of persistence rather than a description of a potted plant sitting quietly in my studio.

What matters most isn’t the subject, but how it’s made and what that making reveals about us.
-Laurent Proux, artist

Annie Walker is an artist working in Seattle, Washington. She was trained in an atelier-style art program in high school, majored in Fine Arts at Wesleyan University and continued painting and drawing while pursuing a career in other fields. Since 2020, art has become her full-time practice.

Website: AnnieWalkerStudio.com
Instagram: @AnnieWalkerStudio
Facebook: www.facebook.com/anniewalkerstudio