SW0120 Legendary Artist Jackson Walker Speaks About His Big Canvas Legendary Florida Scenes

The Flower Hunter, naturalist and traveler William Bartram in late 18th century Florida. 

 

Since the 1980’s, native-born and self-taught artist Jackson Walker has gathered subjects from the long saga of Florida history. With thorough research, consulting with historians and experts on any given subject, and with painstaking attention to detail, he renders stories in his traditional realistic style. Jackson Walker pays particular attention to the Seminole Wars (1818-1858) through which his many depictions represent the terrible human cost of those conflicts. However, his interests range wider, leading him to tell Florida's history with paintings portraying Ponce de Leon's landing 500 years ago, the free black forts at Fort Mose and Prospect Bluff, and continuing through the 20th century.   

In this episode, Jackson describes the process he employs to paint his stunning artwork. And he explains the concept behind his series of "wearable art" t-shirts featuring his most compelling canvases and available exclusively from the Seminole Wars Foundation at seminolewars.us  Jackson has been most generous with his time and paintings to the Seminole Wars Foundation, of which he is both past president and life member.

 

 

Jackson Walker's interests and subjects range wide and includes iconic Florida writers Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Rawlings (above) and a U-123 submarine attack off the Florida coast during World War II.

 

 

See more at his website: https://thejwstudio.com/

 

 

 

Host Patrick Swan is a board member with the Seminole Wars Foundation. He is a combat veteran and of the U.S. Army, serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Kosovo, and at the Pentagon after 9/11. A military historian, he holds masters degrees in Public History, Communication, and Homeland Security, and is a graduate of the US Army War College with an advanced degree in strategic studies. This podcast is recorded at the homestead of the Seminole Wars Foundation in Bushnell, Florida. 

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