Nina Cobb Walker

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Nina Cobb Walker

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"Morning in La Jolla" (2014) by Nina Cobb Walker

Nina Cobb Walker was trained in a traditional Impressionist painting but is regarded as an artist with a modern approach to this classical style. As a native to the Southwest, many of her paintings depict this landscape, as well as various other places in the United States and Europe. Despite being an active artist since 1979, Walker still considers herself a student of the art world who is actively redefining her approach to painting. As a respected teacher and mentor, she is passing down the values of a two-hundred-year-old painting style, while still providing a modern approach. Walker encourages each viewer experiencing her work to embrace a state of calmness and tranquility while taking a moment to reflect upon the spirituality and looseness of the painting style juxtaposed with realistic elements.

As an active member of the art community, many of Walker’s pieces are exhibited and are a part of collections across the country. In addition, she is a member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (NOAPS), Associate Member of the Women Artists of the West, Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society, Inc., American Women Artists, she is also a member of the El Paso Art Association, the National League of American Pen Women, and is a founding member of The Alazan Artists and The Classical Impressionists of El Paso.1

Nina Cobb Walker describes herself as “a landscape painter who paints with the aim to share with the public the rich culture of art she expresses through years of honing her practice. She concentrates on techniques where the harmony and relationships of concept and objects are portrayed metaphorically, such as how trees seem to dance and have a life and feelings. Together, we share how we are all connected as living people and how living people reflect the environment where they reside, like the Southwest. Nina Walker’s unique style is to convey how hills roll, clouds float or the trees dance as represented in a variety of visual metaphors; she explores the unity of the Idea and expresses how nature is mystical and spiritual.

Tranquility and peacefulness are strong themes throughout her paintings. Sometimes even a turbulent scene, a heavy sky, or an icy cold body of water can evoke these feelings. Nina has a very strong sense of color use and pallet. Finding the harmony and the connection is both skill and emotion, to use it -- to feel it and find the freshness and sparkle of the transitions which are continually sought after within Impressionism. To create and evoke moods which touch the soul is what connects us together as humans, and her desire to share these feelings elicits those very powerful emotions. Nina uses her art to make these emotional connections. No matter what we do in life: care for the sick, build houses, or work within the community, art connects us with others in a communal and personal manner.”2

1 Nina Cobb Walker, (n.d.)

2 Nina Cobb Walker, personal email to author, (July 31, 2018)