1949 Born West Kirby Cheshire.

1961 Epsom College of Art. Studied 

Painting and Sculpture.

Travelled in Europe and North Africa.

1971 Studio in Botallack. Working local farms, the building trade, Geevor Tin Mine,

inshore and deep-sea fishing.

1979 working from a Penwith Gallery studio St Ives.   

1983 Travelled in Italy to study Icon Painting.

1985 Teaching, Penzance School of Art.

1987 First visit to India.

1989 Teaching, Falmouth College of Art. Artists in Primary Schools. Community Arts projects.

1994 Falmouth College of Art research award to India to study Hinduism.

1997 Travelled extensively with family in India, Nepal and Thailand.

Currently living in Penzance with a studio near Penzance.

 

 

Rod Walker has exhibited extensively throughout Cornwall and has held numerous exhibitions in Penzance, Newly and St Ives from 1975 onwards.

In 1982, he was invited by the architect Barry Briscoe to assist in the painting of Murals at the University of Manhattan USA.

In 1984, he exhibited in the Celtic Festival Lorient, Brittany, France.

 

1991 Tate Gallery (STAG) Auction David Lay Fine Art Auctioneers.

1992 Mixed Exhibition Andrew Usiskin Gallery, Hampstead

1992 Purchase David Brown collection. 

1993 Elected member of Newlyn Society of Artists.

 

1993 Richard De Marco Foundation Edinburgh Festival.

1995 Group Exhibition Austin Desmond Fine Art, London.

 

2003 2 Man Exhibition India paintings Rainyday Gallery Penzance.

2004 One Man Exhibition Penzance Arts Club, Penzance.

2005 3 Penzance painters St Ives Society of Artists, St Ives

 

2005 Campden Gallery Newlyn society of Artists selection by Nicholas Usherwood

 

2008 One man Exhibition "GARDEN" Trereife Art Gallery Newlyn.

2009 Essex Tyler Gallery Mousehole, Cornwall.

 

He is a full member of the Penwith Society of Artists, St Ives, and exhibit’s with the 

Lemon Street gallery in Truro, Cornwall.