'Marriage of the verbal and the visual ' (1975) Oil on canvas, 122 x 122 cm  1975

This painting was the result of an interest in the relations between words and images, the Conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s (with its stress on language), semiotics (the science of signs), diagrams and a critique of the formalist theory of art. In the mid-1970s John A. Walker produced a series of paintings focusing upon the colour orange. The first consisted of a squa...