Walton’s work is land based; land as metaphor for time and the mind.
Just as nature preserves relics and fossils, Walton’s layerings
of bitumen, metals, ash, wax paint and dust draw into the paintings
particular memories, subjective and personal.

Ian Walton has consistently produced work of a rare aesthetic resonance
and poetic depth, that stand out proud from that of so many of his contemporaries...

Walton’s precisely descriptive titles might suggest studies of particular landscapes,
but they are closer in spirit to visual diaries in which the artist records the emotions and sensations that
the places evoked. Like the landscape itself, his surfaces are eroded, corroded, weathered and stained.