Author Topic: Last January, world famous Toronto gay artist Steve Walker died at 50  (Read 48861 times)

Offline Meryl

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What beautiful work.  Thanks for posting so much of it, John.   :-*
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What beautiful work.  Thanks for posting so much of it, John.   :-*




Thanks, Meryl.

The last video posted (with Song for Cello & Piano  by Daniel Tobias), I just lost it, and cried and cried. It made me think of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.



[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNLtvAcQMIk[/youtube]



Steve Walker was an amazing artist. So sad.



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Thank you so much for all these posts of his work, John.

I don't think I've ever heard of him before. What a talented artist he was!

His pictures are indeed very beautiful and touching. Even though most of them depict two people together, to me they convey a sense of sadness, loneliness and melancholy.

The one that touched my heart the most, is the painting of the little boy with his doll.


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What a prolific artist he was!

With so much detail and realism, each painting must have taken quite some time to complete, and there are so many of them!

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