Portrait of J Michael Walker, by Kevin Scanlon, 2008.
J Michael Walker Bio
Drawings, paintings, and writings by Los Angeles-based artist J. Michael Walker
"Some thirty-four years ago, an unlikely convergence of good fortune and divine providence dropped me out of the Oklahoma skies and into a remote village in the Sierra Tarahumara of northern México, where I was spiritually and culturally transformed by the light, and the life, the landscape and the languages; and by the lovely young woman who became my wife, Mimí.
 "In a very real sense all the artwork I've created since then is a falling-short expression of gratitude for that blessed bump on the head, and an attempt to come to grips with the spiritual essence of our existence."


J Michael Walker before a banner highlighting a detail of his "St. Moritz Drive" painting, for his "All the Saints of the City of the Angels" exhibition at the Autry Museum, 2008 (foto credit: Adrienne Barnette)