Artist Statement

What’s most interesting about using a computer in painting ? …. The way it infects the creative process. I use computers to play around with visual ideas. I like the immediacy of colour control. I find when I return to ‘wet’ media my mind is still thinking with that flow, and visual freedom… there is no limit, it seems every image can be re-processed, re-collaged…everything is possible. Paint on the computer is simulation, and in that sense unreal, but painting proper is full of techniques that in comparison feel unnatural – you can’t change colour in real time, make fills, and so on… and the brush, palette, canvas arrangement is cumbersome. But resistance helps too. The physical inertia of painting. The way it absorbs time.

• James Faure Walker, UK. Born in 1948, James studied at St Martins (1966-70) and the Royal College of Art (1970-1972). Before integrating digital methods into his work he had already exhibited widely (the Hayward Annual 1979, a solo exhibition at Manchester’s Whitworth in 1985). He had been one of the founders of Artscribe magazine in 1976, which he edited for eight years. https://www.jamesfaurewalker.com