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“It’s about an American private investigator living in Paris whose dream was to become an artist. He works with the most wealthy families of Europe and gets caught up in a Russian prostitution ring in Paris, which takes him throughout France,” Walker explained. Walker knows Paris well, having spent years visiting and sometimes living there, off and on, with his wife, Brigitte. She is currently a professor at West Chester University in the Foreign Languages and Cultures Department, and also teaches in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department. Walker has another novel finished. It’s about an artist in the Brandywine Valley area who gets involved with a serial killer. “I did visit the Philadelphia Homicide Department and they gave me all the information I asked for so I could be more accurate in writing the novel,” Walker said. For him, blending the arts comes naturally. “Writing and painting are the same thing to me,” he said. “When you’re painting and putting a show together, you work in a series and put it together. It all makes sense. Writing is exactly the same thing. You’re working with visuals of the story and putting them together in your head. It’s just turning visuals into words. For me, writing, filmmaking, painting, and sculpting are always linked.” After focusing on writing for a prolonged time, Walker is returning to the area art scene with a vengeance in September, when he will have two concurrent exhibitions – a solo show at the Chester County Art Association, and a collaborative show with abstract artist Antonio Puri at Continued on Page 60 58
West Chester & Chadds Ford Life | Spring/Summer 2016 | www.westchesterlifemagazine.com
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