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Zachary Walsh
Greek Street

31 JULY 2009 — 23 AUGUST 2009

Ink_d Gallery and Studio announce an exhibition of new paintings by one of today’s most talented and exciting figurative painters Zachary Walsh. For his show at Ink_d titled ‘Greek Street’ Walsh has created a body of work using visual imagery from Greek Mythology to represent characters with which the artist has a relationship turning Gods, Goddesses, Nymphs and Monsters from myth into reality.

A figurative painter in the truest sense, Walsh ultimately paints portraits in a traditional style on the one-hand, and then fits those perfectly around carefully chosen graphic imagery and abstract backgrounds to create portraits that are consciously contemporary and edgy. As a result Walsh’s work is full of interesting juxtapositions which strangely compliment each other. 

‘Ancient Europe had no gods. The Great Goddess was regarded as immortal, changeless, and omnipotent; and the concept of fatherhood had not been introduced into religious thought. She took lovers, but for pleasure, not to provide her children with a father. Men feared, adored, and obeyed the matriarch’
‘The Greek Myths, Robert Graves’