George Walker

George Walker is a wood engraver, book artist, author and professor who has taught courses at OCAD University since 1985. He teaches courses in the Printmaking and Publications programs. His most recent courses include Bookbinding PRNT-2009-501, Relief, Letterpress PRPB-2002-301 and Expanded Relief and Intaglio PRPB-3008. For over thirty years he has exhibited his wood engravings and limited edition artist books internationally. Among many book projects, George has illustrated two hand-printed editions written by Neil Gaiman. George is the author of: Ink & Paper (Firefly Books 2023), Mary Pickford: Queen of the Silent Film Era (Porcupine’s Quill, 2020), Written in Wood an Anthology of his wordless narratives (Firefly Books 2014) The Woodcut Artist's Handbook (Firefly Books 2010), Graphic Witness (Firefly Books 2007), Trudeau: La Vie En Rose, (Porcupine’s Quill, 2015), The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook: A Biography in 80 Wood Engravings, First edition (Porcupine’s Quill, 2014), The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography (Porcupine’s Quill, 2013), The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, (Porcupine’s Quill, 2012), Images from the Neocerebellum (Porcupine's Quill 2007), The Inverted Line (2000 Porcupine's Quill), George A. Walker was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 2002 and belongs to The Loving Society of Letterpress Printers and The Binders of Infinite Love, The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, Alcuin Society and the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG).