Yiadom-Boakye shares Walker's commitment to figurative oil painting with a strong narrative undercurrent, creating intimate scenes of people caught in quiet, suggestive moments. Both artists work within a contemporary British tradition of psychologically charged figurative work.

Brown's expressive figurative oil paintings similarly blend narrative suggestion with loose painterly technique, placing human figures within charged and ambiguous scenarios. Her work shares a concern with the story implied rather than explicitly told through the painted figure.

Saville works within the same British contemporary figurative painting tradition, using oil on board and panel to explore the human figure with visceral directness and psychological weight. Her commitment to oil based figurative work connects closely to Walker's approach in Stealing Steps.