Untitled (Street Scene)
Janet Walker offers a beautifully observed scene of domestic activity, with two figures seemingly engaged in dialogue and catching up on the daily gossip. The artist has skilfully captured the pattern of shade playing across the cottage’s wooden siding, with the traditional Dutch half-door and a conspicuous absence of signs of modernity combining to lend the scene an air of timelessness and tranquillity.
About the Artist
Janet Walker
b. 1938
A longstanding member of the Cayman Islands arts community, Janet Walker trained at the Ontario College of Art before moving to the Cayman Islands in 1963. She soon traded oil paint for watercolours and began working outdoors to authentically capture Cayman’s rapidly changing light. She was prolific in the 1980s and 1990s, exhibiting frequently with the Visual Arts Society as one of its original members. She was the recipient of the Cayman National Cultural Foundation’s 1995 Creativity Award and her work is included in the permanent collections of NGCI and the Cayman Islands National Museum, as well as several corporate art collections. Walker was featured in a solo exhibition, Janet Walker – A Retrospective, at NGCI in 2010 and in the group exhibitions Watermarks (2005), All Access (2015), A Legacy of Light (2016), Tropical Visions (2019), and Seascapes: Maritime Art from the National Collection in Little Cayman at the Little Cayman Museum in 2020.
