USEUM has partnered with Le Dame Art Gallery operating between London (UK) and Capri (Italy), to bring emerging talent in the areas of painting and illustration to the heart of the Art World in London. Le Dame Art Gallery will be exhibiting in various events the best of USEUM’s thousands of contemporary artists from 100 countries around the world. We are hosting USEUM's first ever gallery event on Tuesday the 6th of October at 6.30pm and the exhibition will be on display for one month on the first floor of the prestigious Meliã White House 5-star hotel in Regent’s Park.
This collection is comprised by the 23 artworks exhibited by USEUM and Le Dame Art Gallery, on the first floor of Meliã White House from the 7th of October to the 7th of November and by many more artworks that were very close to be selected.
Transcendence, Esher, or Walking the Dog 2014
Oil on linen · 71 x 122 cm
£2,500
Along the Old Church Path in Esher, Surrey, a female dog walker passes the rear of St George’s Church. The artist frequently uses this path, and the churchyard serves as a constant reminder of his mortality. John Albert Walker was inspired by the quality of sunlight behind the trees, leaves, gravestones and the wooden fence. About the dog he says: ‘I am fond of including dogs in my pictures, because I like them and because they are useful as staffage.’
About the Artist: John Albert Walker (1938) is a renowned artist, art critic and art historian. Trained as a painter in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the late 1950s, Walker worked as a lecturer in visual arts at Middlesex University in London for many years. His oeuvre contains an incredibly diverse range of subjects, yet throughout Walker’s career as a painter the orange has been a recurring feature.. After a twenty-year long hiatus, Walker resumed painting. His recent work demonstrates colourful, often historic, urban scenery in which human figures pose, stroll and linger.
text by Jesse Voetman