Jake Walker’s work is primarily focused around landscape – as a kid he admitted that he ‘didn’t really know there were too many other kinds of painting’ – but his approach to the genre is often idiosyncratic and increasingly abstracted. A number of the paintings in the ensemble are surrounded by intricate glazed stoneware frames, their tubular shapes referencing the work of New Zealand architect, Ian Athfield. The two others represent opposing approaches, the black painting a work of conscious abstraction painted over two years, the other the result of being a backing cloth for painting other works over the same duration.
