Annie Walke

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.

One of the four girls was a sister named Hilda, also an artist,[nb 2] who was born the year after Anne's birth.

After Anne and Hilda finished their formal studies in the London area, they travelled together for additional education in Dresden.

[1][2] She married Nicolo Bernard "Ber" Walke, already an Anglican priest, in 1911 while he was a curate at Polruan where she had established a studio.

[1][6] The couple was described by Newlyn School artist Laura Knight: They were both long and thin, and Ber always wore dandy silk socks - he was not in the least like a parson to look at.

[2] In St Hilary Walke fashioned an artist's studio out of a horse's stable, bringing in extra light, wooden floors and an exterior garden.

Of her work space it was said: In this quiet unobtrusive little place, surrounded by tall shrubs, while the famous bells rang over the peaceful garden, the painter meditated and produced quiet-toned pictures of saints and portraits of distinction.

[2] 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.

Annie, Dod and Ernest Procter, Gladys Hynes, Alethea and Norman Garstin and Harold Knight all made paintings for the sides of the stalls in the church.