Artist’s Statement

Sarah Walker is an emerging Toowoomba artist who aims to connect with people through the deep, vibrant, colourful, and quirky paintings she creates, in an effort to understand the world we're in, and enjoy it along the way!
Sarah has always wanted to be an artist. Her kindy yearbook is memorable for cute photos and one thing: 'when I grow up I want to be an artist', uttered by one small Sarah. After high school, Sarah was able to study visual arts, completing her diploma. However life took a different turn and Walker was forced to put down her brushes for a time. These last 6 years though have seen Walker return to her long held dream and build an arts career.
Sarah has exhibited throughout the Toowoomba and Brisbane regions during this time, and been represented in both physical and online galleries.
Inspired by the likes of Kandinsky, Dali, and Smart, Walker uses colour like a poet uses words- expressively, liberally, and sometimes humorously. Her main styles fall into the still life, and abstract genres, however there are traces of surrealism as well. Sometimes her work walks a more traditional line, and sometimes she combines all those 3 styles for a more contemporary feel. On the canvas, Sarah explores things she faces in the flesh: life, death, trauma, healing, Christian faith, and how these play out in the world she inhabits. Sarah is also a cross disciplinary creative, an accomplished classical pianist, who can crochet, knit, and embroider like a boss Nanna. She is currently exploring new series combining these various media with painting, as well as looking at music (her own and classical pieces) to distil the emotions music inspires, onto the canvas. Previously Walker primarily focused on quirky coloured fruit paintings, however more recently she's expanded the boundaries of her arts practice with abstracts, so as to utilise the threadwork and music onto the canvas. Her goal is meaningful art that may even leave a legacy to outlast the creator.