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triptych, oil on canvas
51 x 152 cm / 20 x 60 in
oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm / 20 x 24 in
oil on canvas
51 x 51 cm / 20 x 20 in
oil on canvas
46 x 61 cm / 18 x 24 in
oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm / 20 x 24 in
Jennifer Walton’s paintings capture the fragility of place in a rapidly changing global climate. Her work is at once iconic in its references to contemporary Canadian culture yet firmly grounded in art-historical tradition. Many of her paintings depict moments of engagement between people and place; the lone skater on a vast expanse of ice or the canoe pulled by rushing water.
Walton was the first place winner of the 1999 New Canadian Painting Competition from RBC Investments. She was a second place winner of the 2007 Kingston Prize, Canada’s National Portrait Competition. She has received grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Canada Council, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Toronto Arts Council. She has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the International Painting Symposium in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec and the Pouch Cove Studio in Newfoundland. Her paintings hang in numerous public and private collections and have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums across Canada and in the US and the UK. Her most recent solo exhibition was held at First Canadian Place in Toronto (October 2009).
Jennifer Walton holds a BFA from Mount Allison University (Sackville, New Brunswick) and an MFA from Concordia University (Montreal). She currently lives and works in Toronto.