| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Jeanette Walker created intaglio prints, paintings, photography, and pottery. An early feminist, Walker was active in the women’s movement in Alberta, which initially spearheaded her love and passion for art. This feminist perspective and her Alberta heritage are themes found in much of her work, and she used her art to share the experiences she had while living in Lacombe, Alberta, for over three decades.
In 1978, using an intaglio printmaking process, Walker made 25 prints commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark “Persons Case,” which ruled women should be legally recognized as “persons” under the law. Those prints travelled around Canada in an art exhibit called “The Human Condition.” Walker considered that series her biggest accomplishment, and she was proud to be able to visually share the story of the famous five women, and to give thanks to them.
Walker was trained as a medical technologist and worked as a lab technician at the hospital in Lacombe for many years. She received her art education during painting and photography workshops at Red Deer College, and short classes in printmaking at the Banff Centre.
Walker’s art is in the collection of the Lacombe Heath Centre, Lacombe County, Red Deer Library, and the Red Deer Museum and Archives. She moved to Victoria in 1984, where she founded and focused on printmaking with Watermark Printmakers, in addition to writing poetry and playing music. Walker died in Victoria in 2015.
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