"Donald Walker was an artist who has described by friend and mentor Joan Finton as someone who, “Never stopped drawing, ever. He would draw all day if he could, one after the other and he would leave them everywhere.”
Finton met Walker when he was admitted to Church Lane Convalescent Hospital in the 1980s where Finton taught art. After working together there for about a year, Finton championed Donald and his work and even put him in touch with Bonnie Grossman at Ames Gallery in Berkeley, CA.
After Walker was discharged from Church Lane sometime in the late 80s, Finton lost track of him for several years, only to rediscover him linked to a teacher at NIAD, a progressive art studio in Richmond CA, dedicated to artists with disabilities. He worked at NIAD from the early 1990s until he moved to Florida, where he was believed to have passed away sometime in the early 2000’s."
- Left Field Gallery
