Annie Walker is a contemporary, working artist from New Orleans, currently based in South Lake Tahoe and San Francisco, California. Her colorful and heavily textured paintings capture her childhood affinity for the sea and all other manner of natural wonder. Combined with a lifetime of scuba diving, tide pool exploring, beach combing, hiking, backpacking through Yosemite, and more; this collaboration yields a vibrant vision of the nautical and natural world that is amongst us. Her sculptural paintings are carved using palette knives, layered with heavy body acrylic paint, and also incorporate oil paint, modeling paste and pumice stone.

After spending two years as a K-8th grade art teacher in New Orleans, Annie began in 2009 selling her original paintings full time at the historic Jackson Square in the French Quarter.

She spent over a decade in Louisiana honing her craft, and began to expand her market to California. She spent significant time in San Francisco, exhibiting her work across the city at various openings and galleries, and then expanding to fine art festivals throughout Northern California. In addition to these public showings, she consistently took on custom commissioned traditional canvas paintings as well as interior murals for clients and exterior murals for the public.

Annie sells to a diverse clientele based around the country, with a majority of her clientele in the Gulf Coast and the SF Bay Area. She sells to a wide array of people ranging from locals to vacationing tourists. She also has works in several private art collections, as well as public institutions such as UMC Public Hospital in New Orleans and Sutter Hospital in San Francisco.

In 2021, she completed her largest mural to date. “Sierra Juniper,” a vibrant 1250 sqft mural, that lives behind Blue Dog Pizza in Midtown, South Lake Tahoe, CA.

She paints in a wide array of sizes from simple small paintings to one of a kind large mixed media. Each painting is a unique demonstration of Annie’s techniques and talents of her artistic practice. Today, Annie focuses on her murals, selling at fine art festivals throughout Northern California and the greater West Coast. On occasion, she also finds time for an extended return to New Orleans and connects with her colleagues and collectors. Her cross-country presence leads to a desire to engage in more public art. Public art is art accessible to all and continues to inspire people 24/7, and aligns with Annie’s practice in the past several years and the direction she is moving in the years to come.