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Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical

Sailboats through Coconut Palms, by Frank Walter.

Oct 25, 2023 – Feb 25, 2024
5 Lambeth Palace Rd, London SE1 7LB, United Kingdom

Frank Walter lived as a recluse in Falmouth Harbour, creating multimedia works that channelled William Blake and Hilma af Klint yet vibrated with Caribbean energy. He was born in 1926, in Antigua, and possessed a lineage that included slaves of African descent and aristocratic European slave owners, a combination that haunted him his entire life. In this large-scale retrospective, 100 paintings and sculptures, paired with wondrous set designs, transport viewers back to Walters’s “castle on a hill” studio, where he painted Caribbean landscapes in heavenly hues, day in, day out. —Elena Clavarino

Photo courtesy of the Frank Walter Family and Kenneth M. Milton Fine Arts