American- born Sandra Walker is an adherent of the Photorealistic
school of Richard Estes and Chuck Close.
Before turning to painting full time she worked on Capitol
Hill in Washington, D.C. For Senator Edward Kennedy. While on the Kennedy staff
she was commissioned by the U.S. Mint to design the Congressional Medal which the President presented to Simon
Wiesenthal at a White House ceremony.
Since moving to England ,
Walker has been awarded Britain's most respected watercolour prize, the
£15,000 Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times award for Best British Watercolour.
In 1999 Walker became an elected member of the prestigious
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.
Walker has exhibited her work throughout the world and is represented in
the collections of the National Geographic Society, Senator Edward Kennedy,
Senator George McGovern, theNational League of Cities in Washington D.C., the
Wall Street Journal, the American Embassy, the Canadian Embassy, the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, Margaret Thatcher (commission for Thatcher Foundation), John Le Carré, Worcester College - University
of Oxford, and many private collections.
Her work has been used as set decoration on American TV
series "Glee".
Untitled, watercolor
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