page_title: Annie Walke
section_title: Newlyn School
hierarchical_section_title: Annie Walke / Newlyn School
caption_attribution_description: The Greeting
context_page_description: Annie Walke or Anne Fearon Walke was an English artist. Anne Fearon grew up and was schooled in Banstead, Surrey. After completing her studies at the Chelsea School of Art and the London School of Art, she and her sister, Hilda Fearon, furthered their studies in Dresden, Germany. About the turn of the 20th century Miss Fearon settled in Cornwall, where she continued her studies and established a studio in the Cornish coastal village of Polruan. After she married Nicolo Bernard Walke in 1911, she soon moved with him to St Hilary, Cornwall. where her husband became the vicar in 1913. She was a member of the Newlyn School and other artists' organizations and created portraits and religious works for churches. Her work has been exhibited in England, Paris, America and South Africa. In the latter part of her life Walke was a published poet.
context_section_description: Walke met Laura Knight at an exhibition in Newlyn, but Annie and Bernard met more individuals from the Newlyn School through introduction by Alfred Munnings in 1915. Walke was a member of the Newlyn School, an artist colony in the Newlyn area of Cornwall. Because of his close association with area artists, her husband's book Twenty years at St Hilary is often used to research information about Cornwall artists.
  The Jesus Chapel at Truro Cathedral, built at the expense of Bishop Walter Frere, was decorated by Annie Walke. The reredos depicts Christ in alb and girdle in the central panel, surrounded by scenes of various Cornish industries.
caption: Walter Langley, The Greeting, 1904. Made by another member of the Newlyn School.
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