Wally Gilbert

Paul Klee spoke of, 'taking a line for a walk' when drawing. In my case it is the drawings that have led whilst I followed to see where they were going; and so one drawing suggested, and led to, another until a story, and for me meaning, emerged. The 'poems' were written independently of the drawings when I was a long way from home, wherever that is. The drawings are made primarily in ink and in my other life I'm an Applied artist working in metal, most often as a silversmith, but at one time or another a jeweller and also in foundries.The title came from reading about Steinbeck's search for a title for, 'of mice and men', which in turn came from Robert Burns', 'Wee timorous beasties.' Another rejected title of his was, 'Something happened, ' and these, and the story, struck a chord with me when reading it whilst putting the drawings together for the book.

Catalog of a 2019 show of digital art at San Diego City College. This exhibition of Wally Gilbert's work spans 2004 to 2018, as the photographer moved from images of fragments of the world through a period of drawn abstraction finally to brilliantly colored superpositions and transformations in the computer.

Catalogue of an exhibition at LabCentral in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in March, 2018. Colorful, digital photographs, often modifiedhttps: //eu.createspace.com/title/8200223/advanced# in the computer.A retrospective of Wally Gilbert's art from 2004 to 2018