DAVID CITY, NE (PNAN) – “Bart Walker: Tour the West” exhibition remains on view through March 12, 2023 at the Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art. Walker backpacks throughout his hometown region of Teton Valley, Idaho and other places throughout the West on painting expeditions documenting oil sketches on site and uses those in the studio to recapture the liveliness of the moment on a larger canvas.
“It might be a pleasing composition, a unique and beautiful design as shadows come together to form their own pattern, or it might be a combination of colors as nature displays an array of hues,” said artist Walker on the scenes he chooses that seem to stop him in his tracks.
Many of these barns and hills are very familiar to artist, regardless of the change of seasons, the landmarks, and some of the property owners, but Bart returns to some of the vistas regularly to capture a new angle or detail each time.
A scene he might know intimately sometimes catches him off guard such as, a fresh detail he hadn’t seen before. “Without realizing it Bart Walker is more than a landscape artist, but an Agrarian Artist at heart,” said Curator, Amanda Mobley Guenther. “He often chooses scenes that show a direct relationship of man’s tenure to the land.”
For more views of artist Walker’s works see: www.bartwalker.com.