Exhibition
Janet Walker: A Retrospective celebrated one of Cayman’s best-known artists through an illuminating survey that spanned 30 years of work, drawing on the collections of the National Gallery and the Cayman Islands National Museum, as well as loans from private collectors. Assembled together for the first time, the works in this exhibition provided an insight into the artist’s abiding preoccupation with the traditional architecture, landscapes and seascapes of the Cayman Islands—subjects that have long-defined her oeuvre as one of Cayman’s preeminent watercolourists. This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue paid a fitting tribute to the artist’s long and distinguished career, with many of her works now preserved for posterity in NGCI’s permanent collection.
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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.
