Sundar Kanta Walker-Artist and Writer -Exhibition

PRESS RELEASE

'Vibrant Hues'
Sundar Kanta WALKER
Lowes Court Gallery
13th June to 4th August 2009

The Lowes Court Gallery is delighted to present a new collection of paintings by Sundar Walker. The exhibition runs from 13th June until 4th August 2009 and shows new work in Sundar's distinct style which fuses the concepts and methods of western artistic practice with the sun drenched colours and symbolism of South Asian art.

Previously described by The Guardian as a creator of 'enchanting and self sufficient worlds' Sundar Walker's work has been called a rare example of successful cultural cross fertilization. Sundar was born in India, spent her teens in Aberdeenshire with a Scottish family and later married into it. Britain has been her home since the 1960's. Sundar spent most of her working life in Manchester and relocated to Grange Over Sands ten years ago. The local Lancashire and Cumbrian landscapes figure predominantly in her new paintings.

'Over the past decade my work has matured and has encompassed my cultural synthesis. and world views as experienced through travel and living in many cultural traditions and landscapes, from Scottish, Lancashire, and Cumbrian environments to Syria in the Middle East and Southern Europe and North American cultures. In 'Vibrant Hues', my preoccupation is with exploring the wild landscape of Eskdale and Wasdale, and create a new richer reality'

Sundar is spending the month of August showing her Cumbrian landscapes at the Hasta International Gallery in Mangalore, Karnataka, India and making new art based around the dramatic approach of the Monsoon season and how it impacts on the landscape and people of Karnataka as it unfolds. She hopes to tour these paintings in Britain next year.

In the past she has exhibited and toured her work throughout the UK, and internationally including venues in Lahore, Pakistan and Hyderabad, India. Her work is housed in prestigious collections at Manchester Art Gallery, at Lahore and Islamabad in Pakistan, Hyderabad in India as well as at several venues throughout Germany, Holland, South Italy, Spain and Britain.

In 2006 and 2007 her exhibition entitled 'This Precious Place' toured five art galleries and drew timely attention to environmental issues. Sundar's work was the focus of attention at the Brewery International Women's Festival and was both written up and commented upon. In 2008 she exhibited new works at three major galleries in Cumbria and Lancashire and her paintings won much acclaim of the public and the media.

'The Universal and the Particular' was shown at Lancaster Museum and City Art Gallery, Keswick Museum and Art Gallery and the Blackburn Museum at Art Gallery and was described as:
'Sundar has produced an impressive body of work. She takes a unique approach to seemingly mundane landscapes and creates magical paintings. Her landscapes and portraits of children and the people around her are simple yet endearing'.

Sundar is working towards a major themed exhibition for end 2010 on people who work in subsistence economies in Europe and Asia. This work will tour both nationally and internationally.

'Vibrant Hues' is on at the Lowes Court Gallery from 13thJune to 4th August 2009. For more information about Sundar Walker please contact: 01539 532 224 or go to www.artsk.co.uk and Lowes Court Gallery on 01946 820693.

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Pictures from private viewing of 'The Universal and the Particular' exhibition at the Lancaster City Museum and Art Gallery