Evan John Walters (27 Nov. 1892 – 14 March 1951); Welsh artist. During the 20th century several important British artists began to paint features of visual experience rarely ever painted before, including subjective curvature, double vision and the body seen from the first person viewpoint. In doing so they broke with hundreds of years of pictorial convention, yet their experiments remain largely unrecognised.... Walters is now obscure, but was successful and widely known during the early phase of his career between the wars.... He was enthusiastically championed by no less a figure than Augustus John who arranged a solo exhibition for him in London, which received wide press coverage. John also wrote a flattering article on Walters for American Vogue in 1927 and may have helped him to secure prestigious portrait commissions. As a rather conventional social realist and society portraitist Walters might be all but forgotten were it not for a revelation he had one evening in 1936 when relaxing by the fire. He noticed when looking into the flames that his boot, interposed between him and the fire, had the characteristic doubled appearance associated with physiological diplopia, or ‘double vision’. The experience alerted Walters not just to double vision, but also to the indistinct properties of the peripheral field. The revelation changed Walters’s life and his fortunes, but not necessarily for the better. ...Sadly, he realized shortly before his death that he had probably failed. In a brief and poignant article entitled ‘The Decline in Artistic Taste’, published in 1948, he defiantly restated his case: ‘if only painters would use both eyes at once, they would not be tempted to distort in order to avoid resemblance to photography’. But by then he could see little sign that contemporary artists, or indeed anyone else, were responding to his call. (http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/23/as-seen-modern-british-painting-and-visual-experience) undefined

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