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John Walker's prolific painting career spans over sixty years. As Walker puts it, the artist should listen to the sound of the brush. Despite winning the John Moores Painting Prize in 1976, and being nominated for 1985’s Turner Prize, he has exercised a resistance to reputation-building, and visualizes his studio practice as a slow, evolving process.

John Walker's prolific painting career spans over sixty years. As Walker puts it, the artist should listen to the sound of the brush. Despite winning the John Moores Painting Prize in 1976, and being nominated for 1985’s Turner Prize, he has exercised a resistance to reputation-building, and visualizes his studio practice as a slow, evolving process.